Am I missing something in my Mandrake 8.1?

[smugdou]

Been trying to change screen res on KDE Mandrake 8.1. I know about ctrl alt +/- and about the XF86Config files (I dont really want to mess around with those cause I dont know much about monitors). dpkg does not seem to be in my distro (?) and there is nothing in configuration->hardware or anywhere it seems in Mandrake to change the res. Is there an easier way for me than editing the XF86Config file?

[rid3r]

you should have some tools like Xconfigurator or xf86config
$ which Xconfigurator , it should be in /usr/X11R6/bin/ directory, try those.
$ su
# Xconfigurator

[smugdou]

Have got xf86config, reluctantly went through this, entered the information for my monitor and prayed that I didn't mess up any of the other information that you have to enter to get to it.

But nothing changed. Do you have to run startx? I tried that and it didn't work anyway. I tried ctrl alt +- after rebooting. Nothing.

I did find XFdrake which I believe is one of the things which was missing from the configuration of Mandrake but it didn't help either.

I dont like asking this, but is it possible for someone to tell me what entry to put in my Screens Section of the XF86config file?

Refresh: Vert 120kHz Hor 70kHz
Max res 1280x1024/66Hz
non interlaced

I'm just scared of breaking anything if I put the wrong thing in