[techtalk] update

[Robert Kiesling]

Laurel Fan <lf25+ at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

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> Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 [techtalk] update by Lighthouse t. D.
> Sun at one 
> > Any ideas as to what would cause this?
> 
> Possibly, X is trying to run at a higher resolution/colordepth/refresh
> rate than is possible with your monitor and video card setup.  You could
> try editing your XF86Config (do you know how?) to some mode that you
> know is supported, or try the XF86Setup program (do you have it?) which
> starts up X in something like VGA and 640x480. 

More likely, the video card was specified incorrectly, perhaps
from the start, and XFree86 didn't use any of the incompatible
features until it tried to use the higher res.  Rechecking
the hardware config and hand-editing the XF86Config file is 
more common at higher resolutions.  

Robert 

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