RE: ViewSonic 15G & S3 video card...
smorrill wrote:
> I have a ViewSonic 15G monitor and an older "JAX 8241" video card
> with an S3 805 chipset. I've got the boot magazine disk version of
> Debian installed on my 586 and so far everything's working great, except
> for....
>
> I'm trying to get XFree86 up and running and am beating my brains out
> here trying to come up with the correct modeline combination for this
> monitor and card. I keep getting the "squashed" mode when X starts
> 'cause I'm obviously not getting the correct modeline set up. Does
> anybody out there have a similar combination they would be willing to
> share their modeline settings for? I'm very new at this..... I think
> I've probably edited XF86Config at least 73 times by now, still not
> getting it right.
Hi!I have a ViewSonic 6E Monitor, and my video card
is an S3 with a 805 Chipset. I had the same
problem, and edited XF86Config several times
until I got the solution.
You can have my XF86Config, try to start X
with it, or simply have a look at it to
see what's wrong with yours.
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Àlex Maneu (maneu@maptel.es)
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# XF86Config
# by Alex Maneu December 1997
# --------------------------------
# Per a les targetes S3 amb chipset 805
# i funcionament a 16 bpp
#
# Works with S3 cards with a 805 chipset
# at 16 bpp
# See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
XkbRules "xfree86"
XkbModel "pc101"
XkbLayout "es"
EndSection
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Primary Monitor"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 31.5
VertRefresh 60
Modeline "640x480" 25.20 640 660 756 800 480 491 493 525
Modeline "320x240" 0.00 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 doublescan
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Primary Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "S3 86C805 (generic)"
Ramdac "ch8391"
Clocks 25.20 28.32 39.70 0.00 50.40 76.72 35.68 44.60 130.27 119.55 79.40 31.22 109.74 65.12 74.94 94.57
# Use Option "nolinear" if the server doesn't start up correctly
# (this avoids the linear framebuffer probe). If that fails try
# option "nomemaccess".
#
# Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.S3, and the XF86_S3 man page.
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "Accel"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "Mono"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "VGA2"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "VGA16"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480" "320x240"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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