From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

No go with Knoppix 5 either, it seems to identify the adapter correctly,
but does not allow me to change the 640*480 screen resolution.


Antti Kurenniemi

Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>>> So I'm back, like promised, and tried Ubuntu. It did install, yes, but
>>> no
>>> cigar on getting my screen to look nice - the damn thing was stuck to
>>> 640
>> *
>>> 480, with my screen that has a native res of 1600 * 1200.
>>
>> When I boot knoppix I have to type
>>
>> knoppix screen=1400x1050
>>
>> at the boot prompt or I get 1024x768
>>
>> Geo. (once I do that it looks great)
>
> There's no comman prompt to boot ubuntu. And it seems that I have a
> display car (ATI Radeon X800 SE) that is not very well supported by most
> Linuxen. I downloaded Suse 10.1, no go, and now I'm downloading the latest
> Knoppix version. Let's see if it works by forcing the resolution from the
> command line.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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