Hi all, I'm having a slight problem that I hope some of you 'techie's' can help me with. When I had Windows XP on this computer (home built, with Gigabyte motherboard, AMD Sempron 2400, G Force 4 graphics card with 128MB RAM, etc.) I installed the copy of Mandrakelinux 10.1 from the Linux Magazine cover DVD, and it installed fine, and work just as expected. However, I then put XP on anothe computer and decided to clean off the hard drive of this one and dedicate it to Linux. So I did all the FDISK stuff and cleaned off the partitions and MBR, and installed from scratch. Everything when well with the exeption of the display (monitor) settings, which is a Goodmans GV 700 17" TFT. Mandrake wouldn't recognise the monitor at all and wouldn't load the GUI (text mode only). So I decided to fdisk again and install an old copy of Red Hat (version 8). This installed fine but again didn't recognise the monitor. However, it did load the GUI but with a resolution of 800 x 600 only. By this time I had a copy of the new Linux Format with the latest copy of SUSE 9.2 on the DVD. So I fdisk'ed again and installed SUSE 9.2. Everything went well, a very easy installer that runs smoothly. No problems recognising all of my hardware, including my NTL broadband cable modem and Belkin router, as well as the graphics card. But!! Once again it wouldn't recognise the monitor and set it as a generic type. The resolution is again set to 800 x 600. I have been into the control centre (running KDE 3.3) but it won't allow me to change it from this setting, it doesn't even offer any options to this. I have been to the SUSE (Novell) website and downloaded all of the patches and updates. So, how do I get Linux to recognise my monitor, and change the settings? (it's capable of 1280 x 1024 by the way) When I had XP on this computer, I had Mandrake set at 1280 x 1024 with true colour and no problems. I would try selecting different monitor choices to see if any of them worked, but how do I do that? I can't seem to find a way of getting access to that information. I know this a long message, but I wanted to give as much detail as possible. I hope you can help. I'll happily spend time trying and changes etc. as you suggest, and I don't mind using the command line editor if this is the best way.
I await your replies with anticipated joy!!!
Regards all,
Peter