RE: [newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates
Thanks John ! -Original Message- From: John A. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates you probably won't be able to fix the problem with Mandrake Move, if you're booting of the cd. You have to change the XF86config-4 file in the /etc/X11 directory. If you're running Mandrake move to just test hardware compatibility, you'll be able to fix this problem one Mandrake is fully installed. If X didn't start at all, that would be a bigger problem. -john smith Beavers, Randy W. wrote: All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates
All, How do I tell the Monitor to change Screen Resolution Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 640x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
On Saturday 22 December 2001 13:33, poogle wrote: Probably won't be a lot of use here, but assuming you have correctly configured your monitor refresh rates/horizonta/vertical frequencies have you got access to another video card ? I ask because I had an S3Trio64/3D which I could never get to work, in the end I gave up and bought a different one If you have an S3Trio, buying a new card is probably a good idea anyway. We have to use them at work, and I notice that when I restart the X-server, it says ugh on detecting the card! BTW, if I secretly replaced the S3Trio with my old Trident3D (another notoriously cranky card), would it improve things at all? Robin -- One ping to rule them all, one ping to bind them - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
Probably won't be a lot of use here, but assuming you have correctly configured your monitor refresh rates/horizonta/vertical frequencies have you got access to another video card ? I ask because I had an S3Trio64/3D which I could never get to work, in the end I gave up and bought a different one On Saturday 22 December 2001 06:39 am, you wrote: Hi All, I have a monitor that is NOT listed but does 1024/768 and an S3Trio Video Card. Once I've picked ANYTHING for monitor and/or resolution my computer hangs with some message about nodevice. I can reproduce this message exactly if you need to see it fully, but does anyone have any ideas that might get me up and running? Regards Trevor -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
TR Hi All, TR I have a monitor that is NOT listed but does 1024/768 and an S3Trio Video TR Card. Once I've picked ANYTHING for monitor and/or resolution my computer TR hangs with some message about nodevice. I can reproduce this message TR exactly if you need to see it fully, but does anyone have any ideas that TR might get me up and running? TR Regards TR Trevor Are we speaking of X or console ? In X, I set up such monitors as generic. If it is 17' I do 1024x768@70 Hz. If it is something lower, choose something that gives 56 Hz or 60Hz @ 1024x768. If these tries wont work, the error output would be nice. Honestly I never saw that error. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
is the video card agp? or pci? if pci, what slot? if agp what is in the pci slot next to it? (should be empty) Bottom of 3 PCI slots. Network card is in the top PCI slot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Monitor/Resolution Problem
Hi All, I have a monitor that is NOT listed but does 1024/768 and an S3Trio Video Card. Once I've picked ANYTHING for monitor and/or resolution my computer hangs with some message about nodevice. I can reproduce this message exactly if you need to see it fully, but does anyone have any ideas that might get me up and running? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] monitor resolution
How do I configure xfree86 4 to produce legible fonts while still using the highest resolution on my monitor? The KDE help centre suggests editing the order of the fonts lines in xf86config, but there are no such lines, just a note saying that a font server is now used. Where is the relevant config file for the font server? under windows I used 125dpi fonts so it is not surprising that 75dpi are illegible Edward Barrow
Re: [newbie] monitor resolution
Edit the order of the fonts in the xfs config file: vi /etc/X11/fs/config (it probably has the 75 point first and the 100point second. Reverse that, and put the 100 point first.). Then, stop restart xfs: service xfs restart Then stop restart X (a little trickier). If you're using kdm/gdm Select the Restart X Server option from the pull down. If you're booting to run level 3 (console loging, and running startx by hand: STOP IT!).. oh.. excuse me. Just log out to the console, and log back in. You should now have the revised fonts. It's possible that you MAY have to re-boot. X generally doesn't like you messing with it's fonts while it's running... Ric Edward Barrow wrote: How do I configure xfree86 4 to produce legible fonts while still using the highest resolution on my monitor? The KDE help centre suggests editing the order of the fonts lines in xf86config, but there are no such lines, just a note saying that a font server is now used. Where is the relevant config file for the font server? under windows I used 125dpi fonts so it is not surprising that 75dpi are illegible Edward Barrow
Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Run XF86config. Lets you set the resolution with several options. For example, selecting 543 should have it try to run at 1024 X 768 first and go down in resolution if necessary. You can also st it so it won't make the screen so large you have to scroll off the edges. You should know your monitor verticle and horizontal refresh rates and the capabilities of your video card if it isn't listed on the list before running the program. Excuse me, but what is "st it"? I want my screen not so large I have to scroll around. How can I make my K desktop fit on my screen? Also, if Web Pages are being rendered in a tiny unreadable font, is it a problem with X, fonts, or what? TIA... Gregg
Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote: Also, if Web Pages are being rendered in a tiny unreadable font, is it a problem with X, fonts, or what? TIA... rendered by what program? Netscape? KFM? another browser? If its Netscape, it may be as simple as changing the character encoding -- look in your Netscape view menu. Gregg -- -- Keith Robinson
RE: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Run XF86config. Lets you set the resolution with several options. For example, selecting 543 should have it try to run at 1024 X 768 first and go down in resolution if necessary. You can also st it so it won't make the screen so large you have to scroll off the edges. You should know your monitor verticle and horizontal refresh rates and the capabilities of your video card if it isn't listed on the list before running the program. From: "Gilles Lahaie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:11:55 -0500 Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks Here is a useful link for info on editing the XF86Config file: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/ I had the same problem with too high a resolution and the icons being too small to read. Using Mandrake 6.1, the system would not recognize my Matrox G400 video card, so, I DL'd the XFree update (3.3.5) extracted and attempted to install it. Could not get it to work, so bought the Mandrake 6.5 (with 3.3.5 included). The install went fine except for my mistake of telling it to configure resolution at the highest thinking I could Cntrl-Alt-KP+/- to change it. That didn't work. Editing the XF86Config file is the best way to configure it (IMHO). The file defaults to the first resolution listed in the Display area for your server, and it will start up in that resolution. I edited every listing in the "Display" area (cause I wasn't sure at that point which 'server' was being used) to only list the resolutions I might possibly want, from highest to lowest, excluding the lowest of 640x480, as you found out it is too large to fit on a screen. That file is usually in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. You can use the command: vi XF86Config to edit it from a terminal. A final note: During the editing you can change the Virtual setting to 0, not using that feature, especially since it uses more memory. A final useful link: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xset.html HTH,
[newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Please ditch the html. it's hard to read and not as pretty under KMail as I'm sure it is under Outlook Express. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Gilles Lahaie wrote: Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks When you run Xconfigurator you will be told the default resolution, somewhere in there you get the opportunity to choose. At that point go in and set the resolution for what you want it to be. Jim
