Re: problem with resolution on ultra 5
On Friday 18 August 2006 15:59, zagi wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed Debian Sarge on my ultra 5. It has ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D
> Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] graphic card. Max resolution that I can set in
> XF86Config-4 800x600. If I set any higher resolution Xserver will not
> start.
It's possible that you have the earlier U5/10 motherboard that has 2M VRAM;
later ones have 4M. 2M VRAM is not enough to support more than 800x600 at 24
bits. Cut back to 15 or 16 bits depth and you can get to at least 1024x768,
and possibly to 1280x1024.
-- SP
>
> In log there is:
> (!!) ATI(0): Virtual resolutions will be limited to 2047 kB
> due to linear aperture size and/or placement of hardware cursor image
> area. (II) ATI(0): Using Block 0 MMIO aperture at 0xE0008400.
> (II) ATI(0): Using Block 1 MMIO aperture at 0xE0008000.
> (II) ATI(0): MMIO write caching enabled.
> (--) ATI(0): 2048 kB of SGRAM (1:1) detected (using 2047 kB).
> (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer.
>
> Anyone had this problem?
>
> /cheers,
> Zagi
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