[Jerman]

Hey. Ok, so I got this Beige G3/300 MT from a friend. Has 320 mb of ram, and the graphics upgrade chip (4 megs to bring it to a total of of course 6) It is also the latest rev. so it has the "3d Rage Pro". It did not come with a harddrive, so I got one and installed X on it. For some reason, X runs fine, and runs in millions of colors, but I am stuck at 640x480@67 hz. Tried resetting pRam, pressed the little reset switch thingy, etc. My other Beige G3/266 does fine running at 1024x768 without the ram upgrade. (Which on my 300 I DID try taking out) So, I am lost. If anyone can provide any help, I would greatly appreciate it, as I am planning on moving over to it from an iMac, should I get the kinks worked out.

[drjoe]

Originally posted by Jerman:
Hey. Ok, so I got this Beige G3/300 MT from a friend. Has 320 mb of ram, and the graphics upgrade chip (4 megs to bring it to a total of of course 6) It is also the latest rev. so it has the "3d Rage Pro". It did not come with a harddrive, so I got one and installed X on it. For some reason, X runs fine, and runs in millions of colors, but I am stuck at 640x480@67 hz. Tried resetting pRam, pressed the little reset switch thingy, etc. My other Beige G3/266 does fine running at 1024x768 without the ram upgrade. (Which on my 300 I DID try taking out) So, I am lost. If anyone can provide any help, I would greatly appreciate it, as I am planning on moving over to it from an iMac, should I get the kinks worked out.

Try unselecting the 'show modes recommended by display' option in 'displays' in system preferences.

[Jerman]

Did that and even 640x480 becomes unselectable.. Yet, I am displaying in millions of colors.. This is strange.

[Jerman]

Finally realized it was the settings on the Apple Display adapter to VGA or whatever it is called...