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RHEL WS: How can I improved the quality of the display & fonts.
Hi Experts,
I just installed Redhat Linux Enterprise Workstation Edition onto my Dell laptop. Currently, the display is set to 640x480. I try to change it to 1024x768 to make everything smaller. Linux then prompts me that the display changed, and that I need to log out, and restart the X server. I do this but the resolution is still 640x480 (!!). What do I need to do to get 1024x768?
Also, when I open a TERMINAL (a basic shell) the fonts seem to be fuzzy -- it's not a clear/clean screen to look at...the problem gets even worse when I make the fonts smaller so that I can see more information without having it wrap around to the next lines. I remember seeing some font error messages when I installed Linux...something to the effect "...font not initialized...".
Thanks for any time & help. It is highly appreciated.
Linux Beginner
I just installed Redhat Linux Enterprise Workstation Edition onto my Dell laptop. Currently, the display is set to 640x480. I try to change it to 1024x768 to make everything smaller. Linux then prompts me that the display changed, and that I need to log out, and restart the X server. I do this but the resolution is still 640x480 (!!). What do I need to do to get 1024x768?
Also, when I open a TERMINAL (a basic shell) the fonts seem to be fuzzy -- it's not a clear/clean screen to look at...the problem gets even worse when I make the fonts smaller so that I can see more information without having it wrap around to the next lines. I remember seeing some font error messages when I installed Linux...something to the effect "...font not initialized...".
Thanks for any time & help. It is highly appreciated.
Linux Beginner
I also have a dell laptop and had similar video problems when installing linux.
what dell do you have?
mine is inspiron 1100 and the solution to my problem was to update my BIOS to version A30.
read the link below ..
http://www.geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/
or download the latest BIOS version from the intel website at ...
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp?iid=Corporate+Header_Supp_downloads&
what dell do you have?
mine is inspiron 1100 and the solution to my problem was to update my BIOS to version A30.
read the link below ..
http://www.geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/
or download the latest BIOS version from the intel website at ...
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp?iid=Corporate+Header_Supp_downloads&
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My laptop is a Dell 5100.
ASKER
Nothing seems to fix the problem.
As a last resort I replaced Red Hat 9 Enterprise WS with a copy of Red Hat 9 (non-enterprise). There were no font errors at installation time -- and all the fonts were crystal clear.
As a last resort I replaced Red Hat 9 Enterprise WS with a copy of Red Hat 9 (non-enterprise). There were no font errors at installation time -- and all the fonts were crystal clear.
Looks like it was a driver problem after all. If you were to try Fedora Core 2, probably that would install the display drivers properly too.
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If not, then you can run redhat icon (Start Menu) then System Settings, Display to see if your monitor and hardware configuration have been set up correctly. Here you can make the change.