Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 video card...

["David E. Metzener" <davidem swbell net>]

Ok, here is another question.  I have the Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 video 
card.  I also have a "Proview" 19" monitor.  I have the manual for the 
monitor that tells me the frequencies for the vertical and horizontal scan 
rates, so I am not worried about the monitor.

I can get X to come up in 1280x1024x8bpp mode, but I really would like a 
true color mode.  If I don't give X any of the 8bit resolutions, X is very 
unhappy.  I have tried the drivers from nVidea, but get the same 
results.  I don't know how to make changes to the XF86Config file to make 
it work and running xf86config just get's the results mentioned above.

When setting up the video in the install, it didn't recognize any of the 
res's higher than 640x480, however, it did seem to switch to the different 
pixel depths of 640x480.  I couldn't verify that, because I decided to 
install in text mode because of something I saw in the manual.  Probably 
didn't need to, but I was doing a badblock scan that I really didn't need 
to do and wanted to restart anyway.

Any ideas on the X problem?
Thanks,
Dave