Thank you! I must say I didn't have much faith in your suggestion especially after
running vidtune
and getting a console message "Hitachi Piece of Shit". But I figured I would give it a
try before
giving that hard drive space back to Win95 and giving up. It worked like a charm.
Thanks again.
Charlotte Crothers
On 19 Jun 98 at 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Charlotte Crothers wrote:
> >
> > I have had Redhat running for about two months now and I would really like to
>switch completely
> > from Win95. Which I swear I'm going to do anyway everytime Windows crashes again!
>But...I do a lot
> > of graphics work and I cannot get anything better than 8 bit color depth.
> >
> > I have a Matrox Millenium II AGP and a Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751 monitor. I have
>the Matrox
> > server installed. I even upgraded the whole XF86 package. Nothing works.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it before I just wipe
>Linux and learn to
> > live with Win95 crashing and burning 2 or 3 times a day.
> >
> > Charlotte Crothers
>
> I have the PCI version, with 4M ram, ran into same problems.
> Get the X332set.tgz file from the official XFree 3.3.2
> It contains XF86Setup, missing in RH51.
> Install the file in /usr/X11R6, run XF86Setup, say no when asked
> if it should use the existing config file (it generates one from
> scratch).
> Choose 16 bpp (you can get 1600x1200), or 24/32 bpp (and you get
> max 1280x1024) (with 4M ram).
>
> dan
>
>
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