Re: A few annoyances...

Christopher Ninnes wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've been testing RH7 on one of my systems and have just one minor 
> issue: does RedHat handle serial ports differently to
> 
> Mandrake, Lycoris and other Linux distros? The machine has an Intel 
> AL440LX mobo, and the serial ports have worked
> perfectly under Mandrake 8.1 and Lycoris Desktop/LX Amethyst but I 
> cannot sync my Palm to RH7 (or 7.2 for that matter).
> 
> Instead I get an error asking if  my serial ports are correctly 
> configured. The BIOS is set to non-plug and play OS, and the
> ports are both correctly configured with the default settings. Any ideas?

Did you use setserial to change the baud rate?

> 
> Secondly, although slightly off-topic, I have also been playing with 
> RH7.2. The system has a Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card,
> 
> which has all been correctly configured and works perfectly with the 
> minor problem that playing a game such as TuxRacer
> 
> does not change the screen resolution from the default of 1024x768. 
> Instead I get the game in the centre of the screen with a
> 
> black surround. I have looked through the various XF86Config files to 
> try and find any options that could help but nothing's

You need to edit ~/.tuxracer/options.  Change x_resolution to 1024 and 
y_resolution to 768.

Forrest
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