Does XFree writes to my monitor ??!

Alexco · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Coruscant

I have a little problem with my winxp/ gentoo linux box.
The following problem occurs:

I boot gentoo and use X/KDE. I have to restart for booting WinXP (For Warcraft3 :-)

).
Now all monitor settings for XP are gone, the screen is centered and only 70% of its normal size.
After a power down my computer is running normal.
(If I power down between the change to XP all is normal,too)
So does X writes something into my monitor or gfx-card (ATI radeon) and if so, how can I disable this feature ??

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

That is odd. I haven't noticed this problem when restarting to Windows without poweroff. I don't play games though.
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ddanier · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 87

run warcraft 3 in winex

here is a german howto for that:
http://holarse.wue.de/index.php?content=warcraft3
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elboricua · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:40 pm Post subject:

I have seen this happen before. It is usually due to running both desktops at the same resolution and bit depth. It drove me batty till I figured that out.

I had a pc dual booting Nix and windows and both were set to use 1024x468 16 bit color. The monitor "remebers" your settings for a particular resolution and color depth. I was going batty trying to figure out what was going on.

Try changing the bitdepth that nix uses as a default and see if that helps.

ie have nix at 1024x768 24 and windows at 1024x768 16.....
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