[ale] Xwindows on Slackware 8.1

[George Johnson]

I finally figured it out.  It was defaulting to standard vga and at the
settings I had it was too large for the screen.  Took the standard vga
option out and it is ok now.  Now to tweek it to see how far I can push it.

George Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:40 PM
To: George Johnson
Cc: Ale
Subject: Re: [ale] Xwindows on Slackware 8.1

xvidtune (as root) can tweak settings for screen sizes.

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:32, George Johnson wrote:
> I decided to install Slackware on my system as I just downloaded it.  It
is
> installed ok but is there anything other than xfree86 to set up xwindows.
> This thing is driving me nuts getting it correct.  So far the closest I
can
> come to a good working xserver is most of the screen being ok but it
extends
> too far to the bottem and to the right of the screen.  I have KDS 17"
> monitor and Geforce 3 Nvidia 64MB video card.  HELP!!! I am pulling out
what
> is left of my hair.
>
> George Johnson
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