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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

>   >> I have a black and white 12" monitor on my P100 machine
>   >
> 
>   >Is that monitor just VGA or can it do higher resolutions?

We have a bunch of mono VGA monitors and they only do 640x480.  And none
of them seem to have any way to adjust anything except brightness.

>    It works fine in VGA (640x480), but you
>   >lose
>   >the bottom part of the playfield.
> 
>   >> Could somebody tell me how to get this fixed?

Thanks for the explanation of what causes this problem.  Our mono VGA
monitor is also losing the top part of what is displayed in some programs
(which is where the commands are in xedit, for instance). The display
(what you see) is also narrower than the monitor.  We fixed this by
changing to a color SVGA monitor but would be interested in changing
virtual screen.  Mono VGA is much sharper. 

>   >If your monitor is super VGA, you can replace the VGA16
>   >Xserver with a higher resolution one.  Or, alternatively,
>   >you can set a virtual screen of 800x600 (or larger) and
>   >use the 640x480 (VGA16) screen as a window on the virtual
>   >screen.  I will be happy to provide instructions for this
>   >if you want to try it.
> 
>   >Cheers,
>   >Steven
>