Using an Apple Macintosh 16" Color Display

Owen Stampflee yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Apr 15 16:10:01 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 13:43, David Voth wrote:
> I have a question about what to do to configure an Apple 16"display 
> with a Power Macintosh 7500 with G3 upgrade. I have YDL 2.3 installed 
> and it was working with an NEC Multisync 3V monitor (800x600) and now 
> I want to change monitors. When I went into the video display setup 
> using dexter.py it gave me a list of options, but not an 832x624 
> resolution option, which seems to be the needed resolution according 
> to the MacOS and the user guide that I have for my computer. Any help 
> would be appreciated. Thanks.
Run through the video configuration with dexter.py and then edit your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, changing 800x600 to 832x624.

Owen