Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread David Reynolds
On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:29 am, David Robertson stated: With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David I have a sort of weird situation; I didn't know it was possible to overclock a

Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread John Richard Smith
David Reynolds wrote: On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:29 am, David Robertson stated: With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David I have a sort of weird situation; I didn't know it

Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. How did you get alt-ctrl

Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 5:54 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to

Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 10:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 5:54 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Weaver
yes i didbut in my case XFdrake=Xconfigurator...both commands start Xconfigurator ( i did a server install), maybe this is the reason why XF86Setup didnt get installed ? ) meanwhile i solved the problem otherwise..by reinstalling and choosing the graphic card at install

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-16 Thread Quaylar
You don't call XFdrake that way. The command line command to issue at the command prompt is "setuptool". You will be presented with a small menu of utilities to choose from. All to make it possible to configure your system. One of those is XFdrake. Give it a try. Drop out of a console from X by

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dave wrote: I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to selecting a video card only. You can edit the

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-15 Thread Quaylar
At 19:12 15.01.2001 +0100, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dave wrote: I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Weaver
in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the time quay Quay, Have you tried to do

Re: [newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-15 Thread Quaylar
At 23:15 15.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: in my case neither of them does allow me to set my video card.instead both let me choose a monitor is there any other way to select the video card ?..XF86Setup doesnt exist on my system, only xf86config which crashes all the

[newbie] monitor setup

2001-01-14 Thread Dave
I just put a new monitor on my system and now the grapical part of linux won't come up. Question is: how do I change the settings from the command line. I have tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake , but both take me to selecting a video card only. -- Dave

[newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?

1999-11-14 Thread Sevatio Octavio
How do you get back to that program that helped setup the monitor? It had that visual test to see what your settings would look like before you accept it. Seve

Re: [newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?

1999-11-14 Thread PaK_mAn
use Xconfigurator from a prompt or XF86Setup matt

Re: [newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do you get back to that program that helped setup the monitor? It had that visual test to see what your settings would look like before you accept it. Seve boot to console mode (at LILO type "linux 3") and then type "setup" and select "x configuration"