fixing "weird & unchangeable" monitor settings (!?)

[David Purdy]

Oh, yeah... any and all help will be appreciated, and
I may need to be walked through the process in small
steps... Thanks, Dave

--- David Purdy <purdyd_at_wisheights@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Monitor resolution/config problem...
> 
> I installed YDL 3 on a beige G3/400MHz, w/ stock ATI
> Rage II card, using old spare Apple RGB monitor
> (640x480) from my LC III (all right, stop
> snickering!,
> LOL!),...
> 
> The install seemed to go fine, but when finished
> with
> login, & I went to graphical login, my screen had
> that
> stretched look to it (stretched vertically), and the
> display setting say that I'm running the monitor at
> 800x600. I can't view the top & bottom 1/2inch of my
> screen image. The system display settings interface
> will not accept changes to either the resolution, or
> the refresh rates.  It seems that it is
> misidentifying
> the monitor.  
> 
> I've looked at the Config & HowTo pages, and noticed
> the link to the dexter.py monitor configuration. 
> Does
> this still work in YDL 3 ?  
> 
> What are my other options?  What is easiest & most
> bombproof?
> 
> ?Can I go in and pico-edit the XF86Config file
> manually? (!!I found and printed the official Apple
> Specs on the monitor's resolution and refresh
> rates)...
> 
> ?Can I restore the settings (the good ones in effect
> at the time of YDL 3 installation!), by copying the
> previous install-time monitor-configuration
> onto/inplace of the current messy-stretched
> XF86Config
> file-settings?  
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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