Hello Jonathan, On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's > frequency rate, etc,
Yes it does. You can of course always choose one of the least demanding modes for the hardware (640x480, 16 colours (in fact this is what XF86Setup does. Uses this mode with the VGA16 server to throw you directly into X for a graphical configuration and later on switches to the better settings you supplied)). But if you want to get the best out of your hardware, you should know the capabilities of your monitor/graphics card. Most modern monitors have protection circuits against a dotclock which is too high, so at least you can't damage anything anymore (But be careful! Older monitors (and perhaps also some of the newer ones, I don't know) don't have this feature). So it would not be bad, if you could get the information (as you have to enter it in XF86Setup anyway). Regards, Daniel