newbie needs help

[Leon Raymer <leon@shawneelink.com>]

Hi,
 
I hate to introduce myself with a problem, but I'm at a deadend. I have, 
over the past year, been ever so s-l-o-w-l-y migrating from windows to 
linux by way of a dual-boot machine. I've been so slow at it that I've 
actually had the opportunity to upgrade from RedHat 7 to 8. And, now I'm 
ready to permanently kill that windows switch.....but for font & display 
issues.
 
I'm a hobby website builder and I have everything ready to move production 
to the linux side....but for the video distortion and ugly fonts. 
Everything displays clean and smooth as long as I'm pulling from my hard 
drive but the minute I try to view one of my local web pages, or an 
external web page, thru my browser (Mozilla, Opera, etc.), it gets real 
ugly. All the fonts are drastically downsized and the whole page appears 
smaller. Any display under linux, in fact, does not fill the available 
screen width and height as displayed under windows.
 
I've checked my video card (ATI Rage 128) on the RedHat compatibility list 
and RedHat says it's compatible. The website for my monitor (Optiquest Q71- 
4) offers no help at all. And, I've been to all the major linux websites -- 
only to find that the volume of tech help and specs is completely 
overwhelming and way beyond my newbie capabilities.
 
So here I am asking strangers for help......
 
Thanks,
Leon

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