[96840] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Video problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lange)
Thu Oct 29 15:21:43 1998
From: "Chris Lange" <clange@sdicorp.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:12:26 -0500
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A note of caution on tiger-direct, maybe an exception and not the rule, but
a girl at our office bought a system from them and in less then a year
she's had to replace the mobo twice, the diskette drive 3 times, the video
card, the cd-rom twice. They've been sending her the components with no
hassle, but at that point, I'm driving by their place of business and
tossing the damn thing out onto their lawn as I drive by.
Again, not tiger-direct bashing, just a word of caution.
Chris
>You can get a $188 dollar MB from Frys Electronics with an AMD k2/3dnow
>300MHz.
>
>Also, try tiger-direct, they have pretty good prices.
>
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:45:21 -0600 (CST) John Mayson
><jmayson@mindspring.com> writes:
>>If you promise not to laugh, I'll admit I still use a 486. I have a
>>video
>>board capable of going up to 1024x800 (or whatever that resolution is)
>>and
>>a monitor that can go to 800x600. I'll also admit I run Win95 and run
>>it
>>under 800x600. However, when I run Xconfigurator and set myself up
>>as
>>800x600, I get that cursed blinking screen when I try start X windows.
>> I
>>have to settle for the next lower resolution which just plain stinks!
>>
>>I have a Cirrus Logic board and I have tried both generic VGA monitor
>>and
>>custom monitor (I do have the specs on my monitor to do this). It's
>>an
>>AT&T monitor.
>>
>>Any ideas on how I can convince Linux to run under a better
>>resolution? I
>>*DO* have the proper XFree86 files. Also, any ideas how to make
>>those
>>icons in the control panel smaller? Airline pilots can see them
>>they're
>>so large.
>>
>>If anyone knows any sources for cheap motherboards (I'd settle for a
>>low
>>end Pentium or AMD 586) please let me know. I'm going to pick up a
>>Computer Shopper when I buy the next issue of Linux Journal.
>>
>>---
>>John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
>>"Linux... the OS for people who think"
>>
>>
>>
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