Re: 22" apple flatpanel
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:17, Adam H. Done wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:45, P Oscar Boykin wrote:
>
> > If you can't see a tty, then you can't use X (from what I have seen).
> > So the first problem is make sure you can see the tty. It may work
> > using the video line suggested in the SUSE page above.
>
> Ok.. I got it to boot into linux just fine and it looks great using
> suse's sugestion. Now the roadblock is starting X. I made the
> changes... and still no go.. the display turns off and I have to
> switch to another tty and back to the orrig tty and control-c and it
> quits. The errors are included at the end...
Nothing serious AFAICS. We need to see the log.
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Rage 128 GL [RE]"
> Driver "r128"
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0" ## Card #1 agp slot
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> # Option "dpms"
This looks OK.
> Videoram 16384
> Screen 0
> VendorName "ATI"
These are superfluous. They shouldn't hurt, but...
> # Option "backingstore" ## not to sure if this works
>
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "ibmp260"
> # HorizSync 31.5-107
> # VertRefresh 60-86
> ModelName "P202"
> VendorName "IBM"
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
It's possible that it uses the the default HorizSync and VertRefresh
ranges and rejects the custom mode because it's outside? The log will
tell.
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