[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes]

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:38:06 +0100 From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 July 2002 10:08 am, you wrote: > Personally I prefer 16 bit since it works the video card and CPU less hard, > and it really is quite difficult to tell the difference. and quite a few games prefer 16-bit and perform better at that depth. --

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 2:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>[ws] sorry, this color depth is not enough. > >>. > >>.. . > > > >Well, near the beginning it says your X sess

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: >On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 10:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > >>OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows >>screen resolution using geforce3 video card. >> >>Much improved it is too. >> >>But none of my video display programmes will load. >>

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 10:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows > screen resolution using geforce3 video card. > > Much improved it is too. > > But none of my video display programmes will load. > Starting with MPlayer, this is a

Re: [newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday July 25 2002 04:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the > windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. > Seems like it doesn't like something,so I reran the tar ball install, > just to see whether it would pickup on som

[newbie] Generic1280x1024@60Hz / Display Programmes

2002-07-25 Thread John Richard Smith
OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows screen resolution using geforce3 video card. Much improved it is too. But none of my video display programmes will load. Starting with MPlayer, this is a typical load sequence failure:- ..