From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Monitor Trouble At 4th Edition Install Disk Bootup (Quick Fix: 3rd Edition Anywhere, Anyone?) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:17:01 +0200." <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CC5@black.aprote.com> From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3999.1070895522.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:58:42 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9cba2748-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > The monitor trouble are lots and lots of horizontal distortion at > > install diskette bootup. You can see more than five copies of the > > installation screen, all of them all set to go and very tempting. The > > 3rd edition never caused this problem, and naturally I can't find any > > copy I ever had of it. Monitor card is ATI Xpert98; it appears on the > > Bell Labs "worked on 3rd edition, not tried on 4th" list in the > > compatibility writeup. Thanks for the help! Quite a place here! > > Looks like an unsupported Rage, in this case it must be a later one. no, the xpert98 should be working. perhaps you should try a different monitor setting or a lower resolution to get going?