Re: macintosh portrait monitor
Thanks, Michel. I'll try out those modes when I get a chance.
As you indicated, using fbdev at depth 8 instead of the ati driver
works.
--Bill Carini
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 01:31:43AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Fre, 2003-04-18 at 18:58, bill carini wrote:
> > Does someone know how to configure X for a Macintosh Portrait
> > Monitor? I have a PowerCenter Pro 240 system, which comes
> > with an ATI 3D Rage card. I tried to configure X with debconf upon installation,
> > and I edited the XF86Config-4 file to use 640x870 as the default. I get "Screen(s)
> > found, but none have a usable configuration."
>
> The X server doesn't know any 640x870 modes.
>
> > By the way, the kernel argument video=ofonly gives me a good console. (I tried
> > video=atyfb:vmode:7 but only got garbage on the screen).
>
> Unfortunately, you can't use fbset -x to get a mode definition when you
> boot with video=ofonly (unless the fbdev driver at depth 8 is all you
> want maybe). The following mode definitions, which I've generated with
> the gtf tool that comes with recent XFree86 versions, may help (beware,
> my mailer breaks the second line):
>
> # 640x870 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 54.06 kHz; pclk: 45.84 MHz
> Modeline "640x870_60.00" 45.84 640 680 744 848 870 871 874 901
> -HSync +Vsync
>
> # 640x870 @ 70.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 63.42 kHz; pclk: 54.79 MHz
> Modeline "640x870_70.00" 54.79 640 680 752 864 870 871 874 906
> -HSync +Vsync
>
> # 640x870 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 68.10 kHz; pclk: 58.84 MHz
> Modeline "640x870_75.00" 58.84 640 680 752 864 870 871 874 908
> -HSync +Vsync
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel D?nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
> Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
>
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