And how do I go about disabling the hardware detection feature from my boot services? Michael Shaw (816)525-2794 dbwizzard@kc.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Duane Attaway To: Michael Shaw Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:20 PM Subject: Re: How do I fix a monitor resolution problem? > > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Michael Shaw wrote: > > > I have been running RH 9.0 in a dual boot environment with Win98SE for > > over a month now. I recently installed a new Microsoft Intelimouse > > Optical USB and PS/2 compatible mouse I received for Christmas using the > > USB port (not the PS/2 adapter). This 1st negative effect of this was > > to cause Win98 to lock up sometimes after blanking the screen after > > inactivity. I then tried to boot linux. It recognized the new mouse > > hardware but something happened to the resolution setting for the video > > card I guess because the screen went to jibberish as soon as Xwindows > > started up (I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce Pro video adapter). > > This sounds like redhat's famous hardware detection scheme. It is horibly > buggy, broken, and even makes MS Windows hardware detection look good. > Disable this feature from your boot services. Its amazing what settings > it can come up with. > > The description of your hardware sounds like it has been "supported" for a > few years at least. A good minimalistic linux distribution should have no > problems working with it. I'm using one of the latest nvidia cards bought > last month. Nvidia cards all use the same driver. Sounds like the redhat > configuration program went nuts and picked the vesa driver or something > and left out the nvidia module.