* Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ...The problem is that it's > driving my monitor at a resolution that 1) renders everything too > small to read, and 2) that AFAIK, is outstide my monitor's > capabilities.
If it's a CRT monitor, max resolution depends on refresh rate. Your manual may list [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the max, but the monitor will work at e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max refresh rate on the video card also depends on the number of colour bits per pixel: higher bpp -> lower refresh rate. Oh, and lower refresh rates are bad for your eyes. Fluorescent lights flickering at 50Hz and monitor flickering at 56Hz is a particularly nasty combination. There's a program called xvidtune, try it. Also, try pressing Ctrl - Alt - Grey + (or Grey -) to cycle through video modes. Modern monitors go blank if you try driving them outside the specs. Old ones may go titsup. As for fonts, you can tell X to use bigger fonts. Dima -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD. -- Shmuel Metz "Go forth and multiply". -- Paul Martin
