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Wow, you guys get a big 10 points for that one. i went in KDE and found monitor and reset my res. to the above, rebooted and voila!

Thanks a lot! :) Have a great evening!!

Dear M1ke --

You know, after posting i continued Googling & ran across something similar. Will try changing my computer's screen resolution to something more like 800 x 600 & see it that...

i'm not sure if i'm in the right section or not. Have installed Mandriva 2006 Free and OOo 2.0.2 and want to project a presentation which shows o.k. on my Dell laptop's screen through an OnFocus...

Thanks a lot guys. And thanks for being so specific (grep EE /var/log/Xorg.log) that even i finally understood what was required.

Finally gave up and reinstalled the whole OS for the third...

Thanks Serz! The only thing is that i have been unable to find any reference to the "tons of times" that it has happened. The other problem is that

My machine won't work! i.e., i can't get...

Machine was shut down bec. of a power outage and now when i try to reboot it won't boot into the gui but gives me a

Unable ot load fixed fonts
msg.

Have been searching the net now for some 5...

Dear Dswain --

Thanks a lot for your update! Yesterday i got the following...

Use the Mandriva screen resolution changer applet to set the screen before you switch to the new monitor. After...

Gees... your're faster than a speeding bullet...

Uh, will try edit. the xorg.conf file by hand and saving a copy first. i think i've got the specs. They are as follows..

Mac 16"...

Thank you very much DSwain for your quick reply! i have to look up & see where Mandriva stores this file or which one it uses.

Do you suppose i can use my old monitor to change this file and...

on a 500 Mhz PIII. i got the Mac to PC adapter on and it's plugged in but i can see very little on the 16" Mac display.

This PC used to have a 14" HP on it, w / 800 x 600 @ 60 Hz, 720 x 480...