[dundee] Debian

James Robertson dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Sat Jun 21 00:04:01 2003


Thanks Andrew found the line and modified as sugested









On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 21:36, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 21:08, James Robertson wrote:
> > Installed RedHat (Shrike) today, installed first time (I almost fell
> > over in shock) my W2K is also running happliy alongside, now if I could
> > just load them both at the same time!. 
> > 
> 
> Look to VMWare www.vmware.com (commercial product)
> 
> 
> > I got a copy of Mandrake 9.1 and I wount work on my PC at all even the
> > Text instal crapped out!. Yet it installs no problem on a old machine I
> > have. Having said that I think I prefer RedHat, It seems a bit more
> > proffessional the Mandrake. Have been so impressed that will be leaving
> > RedHat running unless I need to do some gaming. 
> > 
> > One thing though how do I make the resolutions on the moniter work
> > better, I am running at 1024x768 and every thing seems a little chunky,
> > While its nice and easy to read, doesn't leave a lot of room, I have
> > tried increasing the screen res, but that seems to have no evect on the
> > programs?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Have you put in the correct Hozi and Vert refresh rates for your
> monitor, or was it autodetected?
> 
> Try adding a line like (or modding the one already there)
> 
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> 
> In the screen section of /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 or maybe it's just
> /etx/X11/XF86Config in RH 9
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
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