RE: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: i'm currently running: mandrake 6.0 diamond viper v770d with 32mb dell trinitron 19" monitor svga xserver Hmm...Ok. AFAICT this should work just fine. The Viper v770 is based on the Riva TNT chipset, and IIRC, that's supported by the SVGA server.

Re: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote: hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've

RE: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-07 Thread Alan Lott
i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310).. Which cards do you have and which

Re: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-06 Thread Hidong Kim
Alan Lott wrote: hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've tried to

Re: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-06 Thread Paul Hendrick
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: hi there, i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my particulart situation). unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've

Re: [newbie] screen res

1999-09-06 Thread Richard Salts
Hello, Alan: I'm a newbie just like you and I think what you need to do is to go to this website: http://www.xfree.org/cardlist.htm print out this list of video cards and pick one and give it a try. This has been my experience as I had a card, a SoundBlaster 3D Banshee, ordinarily a good card