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Changing display settings
I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 in Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition.
I'm using an ATi Radeon 9800 XT graphics card.
During RHEL installation it probed the card as a Trio64 with 4 MB ram I think.
How does the Graphics driver work if using like this?
I changed it to an ATi Radeon 9800 with 128 ram during installation but upon first boot it failed and had to go back default probed settings, so I set the ram to 64 but now when it loads everything is a mess of large colours - I was just about able to login but that's it.
Can someone confirm the key combination to exit X and the command the run display config again. What should I set it as?
How do I speed it up too etc as it's running really slow and I've allocated at least 500 MB ram out of my 1 GB total?
Thanks
I'm using an ATi Radeon 9800 XT graphics card.
During RHEL installation it probed the card as a Trio64 with 4 MB ram I think.
How does the Graphics driver work if using like this?
I changed it to an ATi Radeon 9800 with 128 ram during installation but upon first boot it failed and had to go back default probed settings, so I set the ram to 64 but now when it loads everything is a mess of large colours - I was just about able to login but that's it.
Can someone confirm the key combination to exit X and the command the run display config again. What should I set it as?
How do I speed it up too etc as it's running really slow and I've allocated at least 500 MB ram out of my 1 GB total?
Thanks
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I ran redhat-config-xfree86 and got the colourful mess again so typed ctrl-alt-f1 which exited x again but now theres no command prompt.
what should i do - i can't remember most of the commands - this the first run after install - please help - would anything get messed up if i rebooted it now?
what should i do - i can't remember most of the commands - this the first run after install - please help - would anything get messed up if i rebooted it now?
no go ahead and reboot.
does ctrl-alt-f1 actually get passed to the virtual pc?
What part of it is slow? Startup is generally slow. what is your current cpu?
does ctrl-alt-f1 actually get passed to the virtual pc?
What part of it is slow? Startup is generally slow. what is your current cpu?
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Mellisa Joan Hart is so fit - I wanna **** her harder than everything. Just saw that twisted desire movie - her eye is twisted.
ctrl-alt-f1 does.
I chose reset from Action menu of VPC - was that right?
Startup is slow. Intel Pentium 4 3.06. It doesn't get past 'Starting firstboot' now. What should I do willy
ctrl-alt-f1 does.
I chose reset from Action menu of VPC - was that right?
Startup is slow. Intel Pentium 4 3.06. It doesn't get past 'Starting firstboot' now. What should I do willy
Like virtualpc, i am using vmware, and vmware has its own video driver for the Xwindow to work in better resolutions. I looked at microsofts site and there is no that kind of driver on the website, and i think there won;t be in the future :( So you don;t have solution for virtual PC, but i suggest u use vmware:
www.vmware.com
it has alsoall the information on the web about setting XF86CONFIG file and so on.
www.vmware.com
it has alsoall the information on the web about setting XF86CONFIG file and so on.
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redhat-config-xfree - command not found?
Yes the probed one works.
How much more ram/cpu power would I need to make it run fast as is?