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I had never noticed the resolution in the OSD. When I looked at that, it shows 1280x1024, even though the GUI tool still reports 1280x960. I took bvc's advice and changed the file myself, and that seems to have fixed it. Thanks! Eric

Will the GUI report the correct resolution after I do this? I changed the file, then through the GUI I selected 1280x1024. The GUI still reports 1280x960, but the screen looks like it went up to 1280x1024 so far. I don't really know a way to test it for sure, so it could very well be my wishful thinking.

Hi! When I try to set my screen resolution to 1280 x 1024, it ends up setting it at 1280 x 960. I can set it at any other resolution that it lists, including the one above 1280 x 1024, but for some reason when I select 1280 x 1024 it goes to 1280 x 960. If it makes a difference, when my resolution is 1280 x 960 and I select 1280 x 1024, it doesn't even tell me to log off and back on like it does when you change resolutions. Does anybody know what is happening? Anybody got any solutions? Thanks, Eric PS I'm running 10.0 Official.

XFdrake did the trick :D :D :D Thanks!!! Eric

Hi all. I noticed, when playing with the settings of Linux, that it had some generic monitor selected, so I decided to change it to the one that I have. However, I happened to select the wrong one. The one that I selected is a 74MHz monitor, while the one I have is a 75MHz monitor. Of course, now when Linux boots I can't see anything, but I can get to the CLI, which I can see. My question: Is there a way to change this setting if you aren't in the GUI? If so, how? Thanks, Eric moved to hardware - tyme

oh. I rebooted and tried the "linux" option again, and it worked like a charm. It seems to be running a bit faster even. Thanks!

Ok, so this explains what I was about to ask except for one thing: What is linux-smp? I have: linux-smp linux linux-nonfb 263-7 failsafe windows floppy Default is linux-smp, and I tried once to boot "linux" and it hung halfway through the boot sequence. The boot up definately looked different, but as it didn't finish I don't know what else is different. Thanks, Eric

It works! I reinstalled Linux today and now it works! :D :D :D Thanks for your help! Eric

Nope... that didn't work. One important thing I've just realized that I didn't include in my first post is that it did work at one point. There was a time when I could enter the password and it would accept it. One day it just quit working. I think I might have screwed something up somehow... I figure I am going to have to reinstall Linux many times in the near future though, because my method for learning an operating system is if I don't know what it does, I click on it to find out. As you can imagine, I get myself into some pretty big troubles that way sometimes. (Imagine when I was learning DOS and found the format c: command... "hmm... I wonder what this 'format' thing does... that wasn't good!"). So I might be doing my first reinstall for this one... Thanks for your help and if you have any other suggestions before I decide to reinstall I would appreciate them! Eric

Well... the first user I had this problem with, yes. However, I ended up deleting said user and creating another with the User Administrator tool.

Hi all. This is, of course, my first post to the boards, and I am VERY new to Linux, so please forgive my ignorance. I am, however, having a problem. When I try to do things that require root permissions like, say, changing the system time, KDE asks for the root password. When I type it in, it says it's incorrect (I know it's not, when I log into root it accepts it). Also, if I decide to go to the konsole and enter the su command myself, it comes back: "su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted". I did find that if I log into root there are options under the security settings to disable this command, but unless I am way off base I have enabled it. Anybody else ever experienced this? Anybody got any suggestions? Thanks, Eric