From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 2:26:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E573437B40B for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from katana.atdotcom.com.au (katana.atdotcom.com.au [203.19.77.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0254943E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gos@atdotcom.com.au) Received: from administrator (gosling.pcpro.net.au [203.19.77.235]) by katana.atdotcom.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6VAll902820; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:17:47 +0930 From: "Andrew Gosling" To: , , Subject: RE: [OT] WinNT monitor change problem Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:53:37 +0930 Message-ID: <000001c23873$f7085c70$3c01a8c0@administrator> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200207310855.g6V8tEL67067@tierzero.apana.org.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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