On Wednesday 30 Jan 2002 13:07, Cidadão Dorense wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm currently running Mdk 8.1 in a Dell machine with a > ATI (MACH 64) video card and a P990 Monitor. Mdk upon > istallation doesn't present me with an 1152x864 > resolution option; it jumps from 1024x768 to > 1280x1024.
It will probably offer 1152x864 if you click "Expert Mode" and then "Show All" in Mandrake Control Centre. > > The 1152 option is the best resolution for me, since > the 1280 one flickers a little bit. I used 1152 for a > long time in Caldera OL. > > Well, observing the list I got to know the XFree86 > -configure option and tryied that as root, saving the > file to /root/XF86Config. Then, I tryied XFree86 > -xf86configfile /root/XF86Config and it brought up X > in the desired resolution, although no Window Manager > came up, just raw X. Save your working XF86Config or XF86Config-4 to *.save and keep them in /etc/X11. > > Then, if I reboot, it doesn't go in runlevel 5 > anymore, the logs telling that /root/XF86Config > contain errors (??). How did the default boot got > pointed to /root/XF86Config if I only tested it with > the -xf86configfile option? > > Also, the Mandrake generated XF86Config file contain > modelines for the monitor; since X release 4+ doesn't > require that, I tryied to remove those lines but it > complains. And in /etc/X11 there are XF86Config and > XF86Config-4 files. Caldera used the "-4" file, where > Mdk seems to be using the one without the "-4"... This > is a lot disturbing. > If you're using XFree3 Mandrake will use /etc/X11/XF86Config. If you're using XFree4 Mandrake will use /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > Cid. > > ===== > "It said it uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!" > > _______________________________________________________________________ >________________________ Yahoo! GeoCities > Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! > GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the > above URL. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 7 hours 1 minute. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
