I installed Mandrake 7.1 (my first Linux) on Monday morning. Since
then, I've been trying to get my display resolution down to 800x600. My
video card, a 32M ATI Rage Fury Pro ("detected as Rage 128 (generic)"), is
capable of much more than my 15" monitor can comfortably display, and X
defaulted to a painfully high resolution. Selecting 800x600 (at any color
depth) resulted in a 1024x768 size display--too small to see
comfortably--and 640x480 is BIG. Also, testing the newly selected video
mode invariably caused the display to become ridiculously scrambled and
impossible to use; I had to restart X to see the results of any changes.
Ctrl+Alt+"-" and "+" allowed some flexibility, but not a satisfactory
answer.
Finally, I tried setting it to 1024x768, which lo and behold gave
me a perfectly-sized 800x600 screen. I should have thought of that days
ago. =)
Is this little switch problem common to the 7.1 distro? Also,
does anyone have any tips on configuring my particular video card in
Linux?
I'm having enormous fun setting up and learning Linux. I could
get it done a lot faster if I didn't have to keep going to work and
sleeping and such, though.
B.
