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From: Keith Lee on 17 Oct 2007 10:48
All:
I am having problems with KDE from Mandriva Linux 2008. While I can change the screen resolution on
my TNT Riva Video Card to 1280x960, I cannot change the screen size in configuring KDE from 1024x768.
Anyone know why this is happening? Thank you.

Keith
From: Keith Lee on 17 Oct 2007 12:52
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:48:59 -0500, Keith Lee wrote:

> All:
> I am having problems with KDE from Mandriva Linux 2008. While I can
> change the screen resolution on
> my TNT Riva Video Card to 1280x960, I cannot change the screen size in
> configuring KDE from 1024x768. Anyone know why this is happening? Thank
> you.
>
> Keith

All:
I found that my problem seems to be KDE 3.5.7. I changed the x server to start TNT Riva2 card with a
1280x960 resolution. I also changed the bootloader to load up in graphical mode in 1280x960 resolution. All
that worked great. It's just that KDE 3.5.7 cannot change to any screen resolution above 1028x768. Any
suggestions?

Keith
From: Bit Twister on 17 Oct 2007 13:25
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:52:34 -0500, Keith Lee wrote:
>
> All:
> I found that my problem seems to be KDE 3.5.7. I changed the x server to start TNT Riva2 card with a
> 1280x960 resolution. I also changed the bootloader to load up in graphical mode in 1280x960 resolution. All
> that worked great. It's just that KDE 3.5.7 cannot change to any screen resolution above 1028x768. Any
> suggestions?

Usuall problem of not being able to switch to higher resolution is
video card memory. Reducing color depth may allow higher resolutions.

You might be able to run 1024x768 at Depth 24 but not at 1280x1024.
You might be able to run 1280x1024 at Depth 15, but not at Depth 16.
From: Mark South on 17 Oct 2007 14:40
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:52:34 -0500, Keith Lee wrote:

> I found that my problem seems to be KDE 3.5.7.

It's actually your line wrap settings.
From: Dave Farrance on 17 Oct 2007 15:20
Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:52:34 -0500, Keith Lee wrote:
>>
>> All:
>> I found that my problem seems to be KDE 3.5.7. I changed the x server to start TNT Riva2 card with a
>> 1280x960 resolution. I also changed the bootloader to load up in graphical mode in 1280x960 resolution. All
>> that worked great. It's just that KDE 3.5.7 cannot change to any screen resolution above 1028x768. Any
>> suggestions?
>
>Usuall problem of not being able to switch to higher resolution is
>video card memory. Reducing color depth may allow higher resolutions.
>
>You might be able to run 1024x768 at Depth 24 but not at 1280x1024.
>You might be able to run 1280x1024 at Depth 15, but not at Depth 16.

Which, by the way, is a good reason to use the Mandriva Control Center
rather than the KDE Control Center to change the video settings, because
the latter can't do that.

Usually, if functions are duplicated in the two control centers, then
Mandriva's is better.

--
Dave Farrance
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