Problems with Configure Panels -

[DaveR]

Stew Schneider wrote:
> I had a run with this. I fixed it, on a Dell Opteron, by dinking with 
> the BIOS. There was a video or graphics setting that needed changing 
> from 1 meg to 8 meg (?). The symptom was that no matter what I set the 
> video to, it remained at 640x480..
> HTH
>
> stew
>
>
>   
Thanks to all who have replied. The physicist-turned programmer-turned 
manager just can't let this go. Here is an update and plan...I spoke 
with a engineer at the company that designs components for VS monitors. 
He does not think it is the physical device (nor do I) and he thinks the 
video card is ok - Voodoo3 (Generic) - he also told me the company line 
"our drivers are for the m$ platform". I thanked him for his time.

Same machine and monitor has successfully hosted WinNT4, W98SE, WinME 
(gag), W2000 Pro, and SuSE 6 (maybe 7 - whatever last release was before 
Novell bought them). No problem with setting resolution to 1024x768.

I have noticed I get ACPI: BIOS age (1997) fails cutoff (2000) .....but 
that does not seem to affect the machine (that I can tell) -

Next step is to make some changes /etc/X11/xorg as suggested.  If that 
does not work then on to BIOS flashing - it is a test machine.

Thanks,
Dave