Re: Need help with resolution
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 07:46:54PM -0500, Ken Archer wrote:
> I currently have SuSE 5.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4 and Debian 2.0 on
> seperate partitions on a 10 gig hd. As you can tell, I am constantly looking
> for something better. From what I heard, I thought it might be Debian, but I
> can't even get the resolution set right on it. I have it set a 1024x768 on my
> other distributions, but using xf86config the same way with Debian, I get
> 640x480 with a virtual resolution of 800x600. It evidently only sees 256k of
> videoram when I have 2 meg. What's different about Debian? From what I read
> on this mailing list, one of its features is easy of installation. Maybe I'm
> just expecting too much.
Well....
I hate it when XF86Config doesn't work...so I always make a backup...
have you thought of getting /etc/XF86Config from either your RedHat or
slackware system?
it SHOULD work I believe.
-Steve
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