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TheOldMan · 11-27-2002, 07:41 PM

MaXimum SMOKE,

Good guesses. The board is vintage '95 and it has 1 Mb on board. The monitor is a newer Philips 170S. I use it on other machines with 1024x768 high-color resolution so I know that is not the problem.

xFree86 did appear to get the resolutions correct but it does not seem to do any good. I tried both 8 bit and 16 bit settings. I've seen in other posts that there is also an XF86Conf-4 file in some cases which seems to be the "real" config file but I don't find it anywhere.

I'm used to the CLI but the GUI makes it a little easier when you are poking around looking for things. Oh well.

Thanks again for your help.
The Old Man

11-27-2002, 07:41 PM	#6
TheOldMan Member (9 bit) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: State of Confusion Posts: 386	MaXimum SMOKE, Good guesses. The board is vintage '95 and it has 1 Mb on board. The monitor is a newer Philips 170S. I use it on other machines with 1024x768 high-color resolution so I know that is not the problem. xFree86 did appear to get the resolutions correct but it does not seem to do any good. I tried both 8 bit and 16 bit settings. I've seen in other posts that there is also an XF86Conf-4 file in some cases which seems to be the "real" config file but I don't find it anywhere. I'm used to the CLI but the GUI makes it a little easier when you are poking around looking for things. Oh well. Thanks again for your help. The Old Man