Good evening to all. I recently got a copy of Linux-Mandrake (v6.0) and, decided to load it this weekend, on a PC rebuild out of parts I have laying around my garage, to learn and eventually, migrate out of Windows entirely. During the installation process and when it was time to setup the video card and monitor type, the installation program "detected" a S3 type of video card (when in effect, is an old Number9 PCI 1Mb video card). The monitor is a "generic svga" and I configured it as the "non-interlaced SVGA" option, offered by the setup program. After that, it decided that I couldn't run X in nothing else but 640x480x256 mode, no matter what. This is having an adverse effect on my attempts to reconfigure my KDE display, as I loose the ability to access the bottom portions of some configuration displays that have their buttons on the bottom of the window. I even tried to resize the window but, that didn't work either. I suspect that the video card being used is the culprit and, I plan to purchase a video card that is supported by linux, with video resolutions greater than 640x480 and 16M colors at least. My questions and concerns are: . How do I stop X from starting up (and eventually chocking due to hardware conflict, when I change video cards?) . What video card do you recomend? I plan to use this PC for web browsing, email correspondance, perl programming and image manipulation. I have no interest in games of any king (well, except for doom). .What is the name of the utility to reconfigure X? I thank you in advance. -Carl
