On Friday 30 May 2003 21:28, David Bell wrote: > At 17:56 +0200 29/5/03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:28 pm, David Bell wrote: > >> Thanks for your help. > > > >You are welcome. > > > >> The next problem is trying to sort out the screen > >> resolution! - I'll post the details to a new thread. > > > >Now David, open a console, su into root and type : > >*mcc*. This should launch the Mandrake Control Center. Go to > >*hardware* ---> Monitor (screen resolution) and make your > >choices. That's all. > > If only it were that simple! > > Running mcc or any of its equivalents enters default values for the > monitor HorizSync and VertRefresh in XF86Config The values used are > so low that when XFree starts up it fails to find any working > Modelines and just drops out to the CLI. > > I have had some success by editing these values and replacing them > with the correct values supplied by the manufacturer. However the > best combination that I've been able to produce this way is 800x600 > (which is as much as I was expecting) but only 8bit colour (256 > colours). > > However when I boot up the same machine under Windows NT I can set it > to 64k colours (16bit colour) at the same resolution. My goal is to > configure the monitor to run at the same resolution and bit-depth in > Linux. > > A further complication is that I've only been able to do this under > the older version of XFree (v3.3.?) I've just tried again to > configure it under XFree 4.0.? (can't remember the version numbers - > but they're the ones that come with Mandrake) > > This time mcc didn't enter ANY values for HorizSync or VertRefresh > though it seemed to come up with similar very low default values as > before. So I added lines with the correct values. Running *X > -probeonly* seemed to indicate that some additional working Modelines > had been found. But when I started the GUI the screen stayed blank, > and after working away for a short time the computer rebooted itself. > > I don't know what else to try - so any ideas would be most welcome! > > Regards > > David Bell
David, I'm in this thread a little late, but tell us what video card you have. It might well be only supported in the 'older' 3.3.6 Xfree version. No big deal.....but you do have to know! You stated that Gnome did work opposed to KDE.....but at the right resolution or not? good luck, HarM
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