How do I fix a monitor resolution problem?

[Michael Shaw]

And how do I go about disabling the hardware detection feature from my boot
services?
Michael Shaw
(816)525-2794
dbwizzard at kc.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Duane Attaway <dattaway at dattaway.org>
To: Michael Shaw <dbwizzard at kc.rr.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: How do I fix a monitor resolution problem?

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>
> 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.