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Stuck in 640x480



Could you please send a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config to the list? I'm not
a guru, but I suspect that the "screen" section isn't quite right.
Note that XF86Config can have multiple screen sections, and you need
the right combination of monitor/device/driver/modeline to get it 
all to work.


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Peter Jon White wrote:
> 
> I've managed to install Redhat 6.1 on my Pentium machine. The video card and
> monitor are both capable of 1280x124 resolution. That res works just fine in
> Windows 98. When running Xconfigurator, I can set the 1280x1024 resolution
> and the program seems to be happy with that. But when I restart, the system
> is still at 640x480.
> 
> The odd thing is, that when I run XF86Config, the screen section shows that
> I'm at 1280x1024.
> 
> The video card is an ATI Rage 128 which isn't supported in the Redhat
> distribution. However, I've downloaded a driver from Precision Insight that
> is supposed to work. Before I got that driver, I had no X system at all,
> only console mode.
> 
> Any idea what the problem could be?
> 
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