Thanks Mark for understanding. I suppose my video problem is with my darn (generic) monitor. I do have the piece of paper with sketchy technical infos (v/h scan, dot resolution etc) and it could be possible it is the source of my woes. But I am not giving up yet. That is why I am here. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] :-( (and a blip about the scrolling desktop) >Firstly Agreed :) > >I am enjoying this wonderful new learning experience.....ok >well I just like trouble :) > >My triumph would be that I finally got everything working after just a few >hours (spread over two days) of work! Even my sound card is working now...I'm >quite frankly afraid to install anything new just because I'm still basking in >the after glow of making all this work when I've never used this stuff before =) > >I think someone a few messages back asked about the virtual desktop. This was >my problem as well....I fought it for a while and finally figured out that (at >least for me) it came from having the wrong monitor setting matched with too >high a resolution selection(it seems to assume that since I selected something >that my monitor "can't" handle that I must want a virtual desktop area). Run >Xconfigurator, and make sure you choose the correct monitor (or custom ranges) >and a desktop setting that fits within the chosen max resolutions....running >XF86config (several times) never fixed this I'm not exactly sure why. Also >make sure your video card memory it set correctly....that may or may not have >contributed to my problems... > >Best of luck to you >Mark > >
