Sometime around Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:28:05 -0500, I noticed that
"Jeremy Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had somehow managed to
quit walking in circles, mumbling to hisself ,long enough to scribble
the following:
>I just installed RH 6.1 with a Trident 2mb card that was properly detected.
>When using Gnome the windows are huge and when I got it online I realized
>that the resoltion and colors was horrible. Looks like maybe 640x480 in 16
>colors. I tried the shift-alt-+ and nothing happened. I looked at the
>XF86config (I think that is what it was called) and there was tons of
>settings and stuff, but 98% of the stuff in the file was remarked out! I
>would be happy with 800x600 16bit, can someone please tell me what changes
>to make and where? I am assuming that I need to enable the other modes
>before I can toggle between them. Please keep it simple I am a COMPLETE
>newbie to Linux. THanks
I believe running Xconfigurator from a command line prompt will be
the ~easiest~ way for you to get the other modes. It also has the
added bonus of letting you test the settings before you write to the
file and make it permanent.
Tim
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