Re: X

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Sam Simpson wrote:

> Greetings SLUGers,

Better a baseballer than a relative of a snail ;)

> I have an S3 Virge 4mb PCI card Xconfigurator refuses to set my video res
> at 24 bit 1024x768. I can have 16 or 8 bit if I want. It recommends 16 bit
> 1280x1024, which looks daft on a 15 monitor. I can't alt + in KDE to toggle
> the resolution either. I've only had this problem since I changed from RH
> 5.2 to 6.1. Any thoughts?

alt + / - only works if you've set more than one mode - have you done
this? Xconfigurator doesn't have the final say, you can change it's mind
for it! There's no reason why you can't have 1024x768x24, since that is a
2.3Mb screen mode (I think?). Does Xconfigurator know how much RAM you
have? The alternative is to use XF86Setup (a text tool), and force it into
the mode. If your card doesn't support it, it won't work and you'll have
an odd display on your screen. You may even have to ctrl-alt-backsp to
kill the server.

> Will the SuSE 6.3 be an 'evaluation version' like the 6.2 I picked up from
> Blackwell's last week, will this simply mean without support?

It's unsupported, and w/o StarOffice I believe. Anyway, it'll be worth it
just for reiserjfs if that's still going on ;) New toy, etc., etc., ...

Cheers,

Alex.

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