[Wolves] Strange graphics problem
Mark R. Trotman
mark at armscroft.com
Fri Jan 28 14:53:16 GMT 2005
Kevanf1 wrote:
> I have just come across a very strange graphics problem. I've
> upgraded my graphics card from an old 3dfx Voodoo Banshee with 16mb of
> RAM to a NVidia 64mb GeForce - FX400 It has installed ok and been
> registered in my SuSE box. But, the damn resolution is wrong :-( Sax
> is reporting it as 1024x768 which is what I normally run at and am
> happy with. However, it most certainly is not this resolution and
> Control Centre is correctly reporting it as being 800x600. There is
> no higher resolution available in Control Centre. Which is ridiculous
> because the card can handle it as can the monitor - it's what I ran
> before on the old graphics card. It's made worse by the fact that it
> started up ok at 1024x768 and only dropped down when I put the colour
> depth at 24 bit. Again, my normal mode. I have tried taking colour
> depth back to 16 bit to no avail.
>
> Any ideas? NVidia drivers are installed.
Using a similar card here without the issues you speak of. Can't you set
the res. in Xconfigurator or something... (long time I did anything like
that!) Sorry to be of absolutely no use at all ;)
Good luck!
--
Mark
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