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I have a Dell Inspirion 8500 with Geo Force 4 By Nivida.
Thank you in advance.
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Suse Woes Help Please!
i'll explain the situation a little bit more clearly for those who have no clue whats going on. Htmlishard is the guy who lent me his suse cd. 
, Unfortuanatly, with his widescreen laptop and his geforce 4 graphics card, his default resolution is 1600 by 1200 (or close to that, i don't remember exactly) The highest resolution suse offers is 1024 by 768. So what htmlishard gets is a tiny square with the operating system running, about half of his screen size (i've seen it, really sucks), everythings so tiny you can barely see the icons. The tiny square with the operating system is centered, and the rest of the space on his moniter is occupied with the color black. Is there no way to make the maximum resolution of suse go up to htmlishard's minimum on his laptop? That would make suse take up the entire screen instead of half of it.
The only thing that comes to mind right now that i haven't tried, is to configure your moniter resolution, not the suse resolution, back down to 1024 by 768 to match the suse resolution. But i have no idea how to do that.
BTW, What happened to "jaydp"?
when Suse finishes loading press ctrl + alt + F2, login as root, and type in init 3, then put in sax2 to ajust settings for X, if that fails gimme a shout on AIM
is x the moniters default screen resolution or suse's?
X is the graphical server (aka Xfree86)
You want to get the official nvidia drivers from nvidia.com, they allow you to go to the full resolution.
Also, a newer distribution might have a more up to date version of XFree86. 8.1 is over a year old I believe.
Oh yes I definately recommend upgrading. But if that is not an option the driver will most likely fix the prob.
:goku's job: Thanks Everybody You Have Been A GREAT Help.
Actually i just checked htmlishard's cds, he has suse 9.0
i got a chance to use suse im on it now but Nivida's site gives me different options like FREEBSD, AMD64, IS32, IS 64 ect. Which one do i use?
if there is a "i386" download that, i'm not sure what all the other downloads are, but i know for certain that FreeBSD is not what ur looking for.