How do I fix a monitor resolution problem?

[Duane Attaway]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Michael Shaw wrote:

>   I have been running RH 9.0 in a dual boot environment with Win98SE for
> over a month now.  I recently installed a new Microsoft Intelimouse
> Optical USB and PS/2 compatible mouse I received for Christmas using the
> USB port (not the PS/2 adapter).  This 1st negative effect of this was
> to cause Win98 to lock up sometimes after blanking the screen after
> inactivity.  I then tried to boot linux.  It recognized the new mouse
> hardware but something happened to the resolution setting for the video
> card I guess because the screen went to jibberish as soon as Xwindows
> started up (I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce Pro video adapter).  

This sounds like redhat's famous hardware detection scheme.  It is horibly
buggy, broken, and even makes MS Windows hardware detection look good.  
Disable this feature from your boot services.  Its amazing what settings
it can come up with.

The description of your hardware sounds like it has been "supported" for a
few years at least.  A good minimalistic linux distribution should have no 
problems working with it.  I'm using one of the latest nvidia cards bought 
last month.  Nvidia cards all use the same driver.  Sounds like the redhat 
configuration program went nuts and picked the vesa driver or something 
and left out the nvidia module.