Re: ATI Mach 64 - cols*rows?
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 09/28/03
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Date: 27 Sep 2003 23:56:38 GMT
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:10:30 GMT, T. White staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> I am trying to install damn small linux on an extremely old puter. I
> have a 120Mhz Pent1, 64Mb RAM and the above mentioned vid card as well
> as an OptiQuest Q51 monitor. I know nothing else about the computers
> guts DSLinux is asking me to choose my cols*rows setting. How do I
> know what to choose?
Most 15" monitors can easily hack 800 cols x 600 rows.
Most 17" monitors can easily hack 1024 cols x 768 rows.
Most 19" monitors can easily hack 1280 cols x 1024 rows.
Adjust depending on your eyeballs.
> it is also telling me that my video adapter is VESA VGA.
Hm. This could be suboptimal; you want to be using the "ati" X server
module if you're using X 4.n, or the "mach64" X server if you're using X
3.3.6. Oh well. Get X running first before tweaking. The VESA X
server will work but it'll be slower than ati or mach64.
>I am a 2nd year Comp Sci student; I feel like the more I learn about
>this stuff, the less i know! Help!?
Congratulations; your real education is beginning. The beginning of
real wisdom is to know that you're clueless.
Your professors will probably not hammer home the point, but:
Specifications lie, users lie, documentation lies, management lies, all
hardware sucks, all software sucks, and often the only way to get
anything done is to piss on theory and elegance and get in there with
duct tape and a chainsaw. Many of the programming jobs you want will be
farmed out to Azerbaijan/Vietnam/Chennai/Texas. If you're cool with
that, great... but don't neglect those side interests; they can keep you
from going crazy and a CS major who knows how to {write, paint, make
chainmail, repair motorcycles} is much more valuable than a CS major who
only knows CS. HTH,
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