From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 17:18: 0 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 42CEA37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DA243E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g6VNm6L85335; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:18:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200207312348.g6VNm6L85335@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] WinNT monitor change problem Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:24:21 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200207310855.g6V8tEL67067@tierzero.apana.org.au> <3D4828C8.3800.7311C574@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3D4828C8.3800.7311C574@localhost> Cc: jdunham@m3designinc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:43, Jerry Dunham wrote: > On 31 Jul 2002, at 18:53, Andrew Gosling wrote: > > 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. > > The easiest way is just to put the larger monitor back on long enough > to get the settings the way you want them. If that monitor isn't > available, surely there's one SOMEwhere handy that you can use. Yes, > it's a kluge, but this is Windows, remember? Next time, remember to > set the display setting to the lowest settings before attempting to > move to a lesser monitor. Unfortunately - you horrible nasty person :-) - you are probably right! I CAN do this, but what a messy solution. BTW it is my fault for giving the wrong impression, but I am actually using WinNT4-SP6a, not XP. Whatever ... sadly, I think your advice is the only one that will work . -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message