[newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Mads Paulin
Hi, I just installed Mandrak 8.2. I have tried to change the resolution of the screen, but drakeconf detects a TNT2 card with 4 mb RAM. the card type is correct but the amount of ram should be 32. Also, it detects the card as a pci card. This hsould be agp. I am running XFree 4.2 Any

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 11 April 2002 9:40 am, Mads Paulin wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrak 8.2. I have tried to change the resolution of the screen, but drakeconf detects a TNT2 card with 4 mb RAM. the card type is correct but the amount of ram should be 32. Also, it detects the card as a pci

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Mads Paulin
I think that the detected amount of video RAM is used to detect which colordepths are available at a given screen resolution. My problem is that i want my monitor at a resolution of 1280x1024 at 24 bpp in approx. 75 Hz. I cant get all three things in linux although I can i Windows. Everytime i

Re: [newbie] Drakconf detects wrong amount of video RAM

2002-04-11 Thread Derek Jennings
The resolution/colour depth is controlled by the stanzas in XF86Config-4 for 'Subsection Display' You can only use the resolutions declared here. If you put in more stanzas be careful not to overdrive your monitor or else it may be damaged if the scan rate is too high. You can read all about