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RE: 640 x 480 Resolution Problem

Posted by Tim Goldstein
on 1999-07-29 20:33:41 UTC
To run xconfig do:
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig

Without running it here is the answer for setup with xconfig
640 x 480 can't see any buttons
800 x 600 can see the 2 required buttons
1024 x 768 can see all four buttons


Tim
[Denver, CO]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Bachman [mailto:bobach@...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:31 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 640 x 480 Resolution Problem
>
>
> From: Bob Bachman <bobach@...>
>
> Patrick,
>
> One of the problems you may run into with 640/480 res. is not
> seeing all of
> a window.
> When I tried to run Tim's rt install script in 640/480 res. I
> found I could
> not
> see the 4 buttons at the bottom of the Xconfig Window. These buttons are
> needed to load and save Tim's config file. Even worse, there is no way to
> exit that
> screen short of ctrl/alt/bkspc (or worse yet - reset) since one of the
> buttons is the
> exit button. Now it gets really ugly! When you try to rerun Tim's script,
> it finds
> the partially installed components and stops to ask if you want to use or
> replace
> each one. Since I didn't know the right answers, I threw up my hands and
> started
> all over with a new install of linux.
>
> (I have surprised and embarrassed myself with some of the
> language/explicatives
> I have come up with trying to install linux, rt, & emc.)
>
> Perhaps someone on the list can tell us how to run Xconfig as a test first
> before
> running the T/script.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bob

Discussion Thread

Bob Bachman 1999-07-29 20:30:33 UTC Re: 640 x 480 Resolution Problem Tim Goldstein 1999-07-29 20:33:41 UTC RE: 640 x 480 Resolution Problem