Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:53:37 +0930 From: "Andrew Gosling" <gos@atdotcom.com.au> To: <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au> Subject: RE: [OT] WinNT monitor change problem Message-ID: <000001c23873$f7085c70$3c01a8c0@administrator> In-Reply-To: <200207310855.g6V8tEL67067@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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F8 on startup, select safe mode, change settings and restart. I think XP has 800x600 as it's lowest res, so if your monitor can't handle that, your screwed. Change monitor in Linux/*BSD - NO problem. Just edit XF86Config from the console and start X. Works fine. Takes 10 minutes - including time taken searching for the book with the monitor specs. :-) WinBlows - *&%*^& !! :-( Probably not so bad if you are upgrading your monitor so that the existing settings are within those of the new monitor (don't know). But changing from a 17" 85Hz to 14" 60Hz - YUK! VGA mode doesn't allow any refresh rate change, and normal mode produces an unreadable screen, so I can't make any corrections to the display settings there either. :-( If anyone knows a nifty solution (registry?) I'd be grateful. BTW - who was the twit who said they preferred XP?? MUST be mad! -- Regards, Brian -- LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ IRC: #linuxsa on irc.linux.org.au To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list: mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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