Don't now why, but I had the same problem with a "Phillips Brilliance 15A" monitor - only with that monitor type !
Ronny -----Original Message----- From: l.biagiotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2002 13:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New to the list. Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the "server options" (under "expert mode") such as "linear" - "Fifo conservative" etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? Lorenzo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] New to the list. > Well, this may or may not help... > > you have one mb of video ram.. at higher resolutions, you will have to lose > color depth because you don't have the ram for it.. (thats not a linux > issue, its a hardware issue.) > > so as a test, set your color depth to 256 colors and 800x600, see if that > works, if it does, then it indeed means you don't have enough video ram. > > if it works, try 16bit color depth, see where that gets you... > > Last suggestion of all, get a better vid card from ebay, you could get one > for 20 bucks that leaves the one you have for dead.
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