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Subject: Re: the usual linux versus windows discussions.

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 03:23:31 10/25/03

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On October 24, 2003 at 17:50:43, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 24, 2003 at 17:32:52, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>
>>On this particular point (the graphic X system configuration) this problem has
>>disappeared long ago.
>>
>>Under Red Hat Linux I just do Menu > System settings > Display and I get a nice
>>display configuration tool that allows me to change the screen resolution, depth
>>and monitor settings.
>>
>>Nowadays you almost never have to edit a configuration file manually.
>
>
>I was never able to get this to work, and had to write an XF86Config file from
>scratch to get anything beyond 800x600.

Strange.. I have used the KDE tool to changes resolution, monitor and graphics
card in RH, Mandrake, Slackware and Knoppix without any problem on a number of
machines with a variety of graphics cards and different monitors.



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