On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:43 pm, Alex Horvath wrote:
have you tried running XFdrake in a terminal?
make shure it detects your vid card right, and try picking different monitors
under generic that fit the capabilities of what you have.
this will also offer a chance see what messages are printed to the terminal
while setting things up, might help give you a better idea of what is going
on.
> Hi All
>
> I have a Supermac j900 running Mandrake 8.2PPC.
>
> I've got an ATI Xclaim VR (Rage II) and an Apple 17" Monitor.
>
> The current display mode is 800x600 (i think the refresh is 75).
>
> I'd like to change the display mode to 1024x768 @75 or 85, but I can't seem
> to do it.
>
> I figured out that X is using the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for the
> configs, but if I add 1024x768 to the Screen section, X errors out with a
> signal 11.
>
> I know that the monitor and card can do 1024x768@75 because I use this on
> the MacOS.
>
> I've tried the default 1024x768 settings, plus my own that I generated at
> http://xtiming.sourceforge.net
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> AH tm.
