Re: [newbie] (newbie) screen placement is to the far right

1999-10-18 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
The main account you mentioned would be the root account, and you were required to provide a root password when you installed Linux-Mandrake. So at the login prompt, type "root" (without the quotes) and ENTER, then type your root password and ENTER. This will log you on a the superuser. Maybe then

Re: [newbie] (newbie) screen placement is to the far right

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: > An automatic "saver" for modelines would be nice, but I haven't seen > anything that will do that. > Check out SUSE Linux. :-) Hate to say it, but their XVidtune replacement is MUCH nicer than ours. :-( (Hint, hint, Mandrake guys!!!) John

Re: [newbie] (newbie) screen placement is to the far right

1999-10-17 Thread Civileme
Hmmm Well, on most monitors there are horizontal centering controls, vertical centering controls, and horizontal width and vertical height controls as well as brightness and contrast. In addition to those, there are often rotation, pincushion, and trapezoidal adjustments available unless you hap

Re: [newbie] (newbie) screen placement is to the far right

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Philp
> LGreer wrote: > > I have the video resolution where i want it, but the screen is off to > the right. i can see the screen except for everything on the right > side. i've use the xvidtune to get the screen placement centered but i > can't save the changes. i don't know how to log on as the main