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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,02:16 QUOTE
now i don't know what the problem might be...maybe the monitor just refuses to go higher than 800x600, but i would have thought it would not display much at all in that case.  sorry i'm stumped.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,02:25 QUOTE
I'm with you thinking it wont go higher.  If anyone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears.  Thanks for all your help mikshaw.
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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,01:43 QUOTE
How high can your resolution go in 24bit/32bit colour in OS's?
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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,09:53 QUOTE
Xvesa requires a vesa 2.0 compliant graphics card and it may be that you card doesn't support vesa 2.0 modes above 800x600. You can check this by running "Xvesa -listmodes" (without quotes) in an X-term. If it doesn't, you probably have to install the XFree mydsl package.
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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,23:12 QUOTE
Woohoo, skaos, you have the answer.  Not particularly the answer I wanted, but THE answer none the less.  I ran the command, and none of the listings were more than 800x600. (but hey, it looks like I can go 640x200 monochrome....)  This is a laptop so it has its limitations.  Why would it accept the higher resolution, and say it is there, if it wont go that far?
 It looks like I have to play around with the XFree package.
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