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LlamaRama
06-17-2001, 03:09 PM
I'm on Mandrake 8.0 running KDE, and finally online, which makes me very happy.

During the GUI setup I had it run through on "Recommended" mode, and I'm pretty sure I was never confronted with any video card questions.

I'd like to change my resolution from this ultra-high-make-everything-hard-to-read mode to a milder 800x600. I read up in the guide on how to do this, but when I get into DrakConf I'm forced to choose my video card from a list, my card is there, but only the AGP version.

So am I out of luck or is there a tricky way to work around this? Thanks, anyone.

bdg1983
06-18-2001, 07:52 AM
You could try manually editing your XF86Config-4 and change around the resolutions.

i.e.

Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection


TO...

Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "1600x1200"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600" "1600x1200"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "1600x1200"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1600x1200"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600" "1600x1200"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection


Make a backup copy before you attempt the changes.