[UCLA-LUG] FW: Help

Kwan, Michelle mkwan@oac.ucla.edu
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:34:25 -0800


> not sure what you meant by big because 1024x768 is the display size so it
> should be the same on X or MS Windows.  
> 
	>> It looks like 300x400 or so. All the icons are huge. 

> To toggle between different display resolutions you can CTRL+ALT+(plus
> sign)
> or (minus sign).  
> 
	>> I did, but it didn't change anything :(

> May be when you tried 1024x768 it did not switch to that mode at all
> because
> you video card is not support so it just default to standard VGA mode.
> I'm
> not sure if your Diamond viper v770 is supported on current version of
> XFree.  Check www.xfree.org for video board support.
> 
	>> yeap. I checked that website. It does support my video card (I
think that's why it sees the card and can probe it, too).

> What linux distribution are you using?
> 
	>> I am running Linux Mandrake release 6.0 (Venus), and the kernel
version is 2.2.9-19mdk

	-- Michelle --