Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT> Anyhow,  when I fire this box up,  before the MB splash screen with the
RJT> memory test,  etc. that shows up there,  something pops up on the
RJT> screen about it detecting a PnP monitor.  WTF?  The monitor in question
RJT> that's plugged into that system at the moment is a mono vga,  says
RJT> "Compaq" on the front of it, but is otherwise
unremarkable.  How can it
RJT> be PnP?  And what is it,  the video card that's telling me this?

 WC> You've got me. Caught me by surprise when Win 98 just tried to ID
 WC> my monitor, but could not.

I never could figure that out...

Always thought that those video connectors on the card to the monitor were
all *outputs*.

WC> I can mess up the sync by trying to set resolution too high but in 
WC> point of fact like Charles A. was speaking of I'm thinking of 
WC> reseting my resolution _downwards_ for readability.

The w98 box here is stuck at 640x480,  as that's all that particular
monitor can handle.  The linux box is at 800x600,  the monitor will
supposedly do 1024x768,  but I have some bugs to get out of the modelines
in the config file before that's working right.  I also have an IBM monitor
here that'll only do 640x480 and 1024x768,  but _not_ 800x600 for some
strange reason -- was told that before I got it.  I had that hooked up to
the OS/2 box and at the higher resolution things got very small.

I can see higher resolutions if you have a bigger monitor.  The trouble
with that is that bigger monitors are also way deeper,  and I have too much
stuff on this desk as it is,  I'd lose a lot of space.  The one at work is
bigger than anything I have here and the default with that is I think
1024x768,  I kicked it up to whatever the next step is beyond that.  It'll
go higher,  but that's about the limit of what I can deal with.  It lets me
get more on the screen.

OTOH,  on the linux box I don't want to go below 800x600 as a bunch of
stuff in X just doesn't seem to work right -- the buttons you need to click
on are off the bottom of the screen,  etc.  Yet I've already kicked the
default font size up a notch or two just to make it easier to read.

One nice thing about the browser window that's currently on the screen is a
pair of magnifying glass icons on the toolbar,  one with a + next to it, 
and one with a -.  These will let you get real comfortable and scale things
to whatever works for you...

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