Shawn, I usually log in as root and type "setup". Then use the Xconfigurator. You can try to reconfigure your X settings. I hope that helps. I've been in a battle with my laptop X settings myself. :) -- Jamie Seeman Secure Computing - Test Engineer 651.628.5420 Shawn wrote: > I have a couple of questions on my laptop. I'm running Slack 7.1 and am > facing these two issues: > > 1) My PCMCIA NIC card is recognized and the module is compiled into the > kernel. the only way I can get the card to initialize is by doing an > "ifconfig eth0 up" and then to rerun /etc/inetd1 to get an IP address or > network connectivity at all. I put both of these into the rc.local for > initialization on bootup. It's a workaround, but I just feel like it's > not *quite* the right way to get it to work. Where exactly does this > thing get initialized? Also, on boot up now, the system takes a couple > of minutes to get to the point where it will continue to boot after it > realizes it's not on a network. Would I be better to take out the two > lines from rc.local and make a script to run them manually for when I'm > on the network? I'm on the network about 1/2 the time I boot, so would > it be "right" to do this, or is it like going back to my ealier question > of if there's a better way to do it. > > 2) I'm running Gnome, with the svga x-server. Looking in the manual, > my laptop can handle 1024x768 in 256, 65k, and 16.7M colors. It looks > like I'm running in 256 color, and I'd like to take it up to 16.7M. > There's no refresh rate listed in the manual for my laptop's monitor > (it's an XGA), and it has 2.5MB of video memory. Can someone give me an > idea of which lines I need to modify to get it to the higher > resolutions? > > Thanks. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list