RE: screen blows up!

["Brooks R. Robinson" <brooks.robinson@rides.com>]

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Hans Fong [mailto:hansfong@yahoo.com]
|Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2001 05:37 AM
|To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: screen blows up!
|
|
|Okay, it's not that bad, it's only the screen size.
|I'm trying to save an old Compay 75 MHz Pentium for
|Linux box at work. Installed Potato, X ran fine.
|Upgraded to Woody (testing), ran xf86config, X came
|up, but only left-lower quarter of the screen. I wear
|glasses already, so no need for a blown-up desktop.
|Any idea's on how to fix this?
|
|I tried a Trident and Tseng ET3000 and both have the
|same problem.
|
|Please CC as I'm at work. Thanks.
|
|Hans

Greetings,
	I had a similar problem.  I ran xvidtune to get it to look right.  Once I
had the settings properly record, then I modified my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
to include and use a custom mode:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Compaq QVision 172"
        HorizSync       31.5-82
        VertRefresh     50-110
        Option          "DPMS"
        Mode "Good_1024x768"
                DotClock        94.50
                HTimings        1024 1072 1168 1376
                VTimings        768  769  772  860
                Flags           "+hsync" "+vsync"
        EndMode
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Diamond SpeedStar A200"
        Monitor         "Compaq QVision 172"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "Good_1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Now it works fine!

HTH,

Brooks