X problems

[Colin Law]

2009/8/10 Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
>        I mounted a pci Nvidia card several months ago in my computer and it
> was working fine to now. I decided to anchor the card front to the place
> it should go. Hard to get to because the screw hole is hidden by the
> power supply.
>
>        I unplugged the card and took screws off the back side and was able to
> put the screw in with the card out of the socket, and then put the card
> into the socket. It appears to be working but my system can not get the
> proper image size now.
>
>        If I come up normal I get a 800x600 display which is not right of
> course. I did check the system-Admin-Hardware Drivers and the Nvidia
> driver was off. I clicked it to on and had to reboot. Checked and it was
> off again. Did this dance many times. It appears there is a problem in
> this area.
>
>        If I come up in the broken version of this Hardy and wait for the
> ability to check xsetup I do so but it fixes nothing.
>
>
>        Any ideas? I do get a good image so I think the Nvidia pci card is
> working. But I can't get the right image size.
>
> Karl
>

When you say it is not the right size are you talking about the
resolution or the physical size on the screen?  If the latter I
presume that you have tried a different monitor.

Colin