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Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel



On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Stefan Kluth wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> > append="video=aty128fb:" works for me with yaboot.
> I also couldn't get your first suggestion ("current" as mode and depth 8
> in XF86Config) to work, the server always deleted all modelines. I tried
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver      "FBDev"
>     Device      "Linux Frame Buffer Device"
>     Monitor     "LCD Panel"
>     DefaultColorDepth 8
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth       8
>         Modes       "current"
>         #Virtual     1280 960
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection

It's `default', not `current'.

> Oh, and fbset -x (when running with video=ofonly) tells me 
> 
> mac108:/home/skluth# fbset -x
> 
> Mode "1024x768"
>     # D: 100.000 MHz, H: 93.985 kHz, V: 116.318 Hz
>     DotClock 100.001
>     HTimings 1024 1040 1048 1064
>     VTimings 768 784 792 808
>     Flags    "-HSync" "-VSync"
> EndMode
> 
> which has almost twice as much vertical refresh than Apple says? Should I
> paste this into XF86Config? Or will I smoke-test the display? 

That's normal. Offb doesn't know the real values and fills in some dummies.
Perhaps it'd better fill in values so vrefresh is always 60 Hz?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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