hello, youve all been a big help in the past and hopefully this one shouldnt be to big a tuffy. :) I recently changed the screen resolution in the kde gui to 800 X 600. Afterwards it told me to logoff so i did just that Upon logging back on i heard the gui start up but nothing was visible on the screen. Even the button that controls the contrast/brightness built into the moitor wasnt responding. I was however, able to get into the commmand promt, is there any way i can set my display back to 1024 X 768? or 1280 X 1024? Please..any help is grately appreciated. Mandrake 9.2 is a great OS and id love to continue enjoying it.

open /etc/X11/XF86Config using an editor and go to the "resolution" section. Then it back to whatever you want to... There might be come GUI config program for editing the file in mandrake, but I don't know, I have never used mandrake. If you know how to use "vim" or "vi" then simply editing XF86Config would surely solve your problem. Good Luck.

thanyou ver much again for your replies. I now know what to do for future reference. To get the monitor back up and runnig i rebooted through the instalation cd and chose upgrade. I was promted to set up my hardware and then everything went fine :)

Animeation...it is HIGHLY advisible to always have any distro boot to the text prompt first(you can usually type <startx> for the X win app)...just in case of video issues such as this you can edit your resolution or whatever using the text editor. Nothing is worse than booting up to a blank screen and not being able to change it; )

The frontend on Mandrake for adjusting the GUI is XFDrake. You can boot into text mode even when usually set to boot into a GUI by passing "linux 3" to lilo/grub on boot.

confusing...al right im going to archive this info if it ever happens again. Who new id be so confusing just to fix a minor display setting... :(

Ain't confusing at all. In the end /etc/X11/XF86Config gets edited. You do it by hand, use the installer to do it, or use XFdrake to do it thats up to you.