[newbie] Video Settings

[Jason Fuller]

Hello all - I'm happy to have a working Mandrake system on the first try - except I can't get the video to 800x600.  I'm stuck at 640x480 8bits - making the KDE too small to work with... sometimes i can't see the "ok" buttons!   When I set this up (using Linux - 4 - windows) and tried using 800x600 8bits (i didn't try 16bits, giving me 65536 colors) and it said "problem with X windows" and brought me back to the video setup where I put in 640x480, and it worked.   ***>>>Now that I have the KDE installed at 640x480, how do i change this to 800x600 16 bits???  I couldn't find anything in the menus on the K "start" menu.   ...and is X Windows referred to in the setup the same as the KDE that is actually used?   thanks for your help!