On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:14, John Pavlicek wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I recently was given an off brand laptop on which I installed Gentoo
> > linux. The OS runs great save one problem; I cannot run resolution levels
> > above 640x480. The card is an SiS 315 with 16MB of RAM and supported by
> > both XFree86 4.3.0 and the kernel (support has been compiled in). Both
> > Knoppix and the Gentoo install CD are able to correctly run at max
> > resulotion (1024x786 w/ 24-bit color) but my base install cannot. How
> > can I fix this?
>
> I had a similar problem. What it took to correct it for me was to go
> into XF86Config and change the frequencies for the display to the
> correct ones. After that, it took care of itself. The best place to
> find this for me was using Google.
You could also check /var/log/XFree86.0.log when you boot into Knoppix.
Jason
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