Laptop display settings

[Andrew Robinson <awrobinson@xxxxxxx>]

I have Red Hat 9 installed on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. When booted into 
Linux, the best settings I get for the display are 800x600 resolution with 
what looks like 16-bit color. In Windoze, I can set the display to 1024x768 
with 24-bit color. That's what I would like to get to in Linux as well. I 
tried changing a setting in an X configuration file that has worked for me 
in the past, but didn't seem to help this time. This is a process I don't 
understand well (to say the least). My display adapter is a NeoMagic 
MagicGraph256AV. All this leads me to ask three questions:

1. What settings do I make to get this laptop to work at 1024x768 
resolution with 24-bit color?

2. Is there a tutorial someplace that explains what X settings to make 
given the parameters of a particular display adapter? In other words, is 
there a tutorial or how-to on how to set up X for a given display?

3. A co-worker once showed me a web site that listed parameters for many, 
many monitors and display adapters. Anyone know what that site might be?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson


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