[electroJerm]

I brought my Quicksilver to my brother's place for the weekend so I could take advantage of his DSL connection. Sadly, I left my 15" studio display at home, assuming that it would work fine with his 21 inch NCD vga display (I think its a NCD NC2082BA monitor - not that this really matters). Well, what sucks is that I'm stuck at 640x480 with no options to change resolution. If I go into the Monitors control panel or system preferences (same whether in OS 9 or X) I am unable to select anything other than 640x480 and I am unable to select anything other than "Recomended settings." Are there any workaroudns for this? Any extensions, drivers or whatever that I can install? Any help would be appreciated.

- Jerm

[-Q-]

I don't know if it will work or not with 9.2 but you could try SwitchRes or Super Res. Both allow you to expand the monitor resolution settings regardless of what monitor/card combination you have.

[Cowdog]

This sometimes happens to me with vga on my dp533. never happened on my b&w g3 so I think it must be a hardware issue (not software fixable) with both adc and vga on the card.

Seems it just can't tell there is a monitor connected so it defaults to 640 x 480, which you'll usually get if you boot up w/o a monitor and then plug on in.

It isn't the greatest solution in the world but what I do when it happens (usually after a crash and restart) is to simply shut down, turn off the monitor, let it sit and then turn it back on a good 5 - 10 seconds before I boot up just to be sure the computer can find it.

Could work, maybe not, try it