From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 17:40:41 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 24F3637B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D5D43E70 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:40:39 -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 g710eWL86277; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:10:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208010040.g710eWL86277@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Jerry Dunham" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gosling Subject: Re: [OT] WinNT monitor change problem Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:16:48 +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> 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. Sorry I gave the impression that I was using XP. I am actually using WinNT4 (SP6a). VGA mode will NOT allow me to change the refresh rate - "hardware default refresh" is all I can have. Today, I let WinBlows use "standard VGA adaptor" and this has given me a readable screen - 640x480 16 colours is the best I am allowed regardless of the driver I install from the CD (sigh). I guess it is a registry problem? Maybe? Or just Win rubbish behaviour? In this situation I am not confident that even putting the 17" monitor back would help. Oh dear! -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message