I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 8. I duell installed RHL 8 and Win XP. I am very happy with it yet there is a MAJOR display problem with RHL 8. I have a Sony Multiscan 2000GS. Compared with XP the colors are dim and fuzzy. I know this because whenever I boot to XP the monitor "comes to life" or something close. Does anybody know how to properly configure RHL 8 to properly use the monitor? Maybe I need a new 64MB 3D Vidio card? The Driver is Trident CyberBlade(Generic). Or is this the downside of RHL 8? Maybe some other distro of Linux is batter for my monitor? Thanks

Assuming you are getting the maximum resolution out of the monitor using RH8, see what your color depth is it should be in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. See if it is atleast 16 ie..DefaultColorDepth 16, close to the bottom the file. hope this helps.

In my /etc/X11/XF86Config file I can't find "DefaultColorDepth". However I do not get maximum resolution from my monitor because I set it to 800X600 in both RHL 8 and Win XP, yet XP runs my monitor much batter. I did try setting my monitor to the max and it worked but everything(text,icons,browser,emacs) was very small. Thats why I prefer 800X600 everthing is large.My question was how can I get the same quality of color and sharpness of charecters at 600X800 in Linux as I do in Win XP? Sorry for the confussion. Here is my XF86Config file: # File generated by anaconda. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Anaconda Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5" # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the # following line # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" #Option "XkbOptions" "" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" #Option "XkbVariant" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Modified by mouseconfig Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" HorizSync 30.0 - 85.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" # no known options #BusID Identifier "Trident CyberBlade (generic)" Driver "trident" VendorName "Trident CyberBlade (generic)" BoardName "Trident CyberBlade (generic)" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Trident CyberBlade (generic)" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection