Re: A few questions
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 05:24:18PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a few questions involving things that have stumped me for a while...
> >
> > 1) How do I get a 320x200 modeline for svgalib?? Is there some explanation
> > somewhere about how to do this? I cant get quake working :)
>
> I did it for my card and monitor, but you need to be very carefuland it is
> not easy. You can do any weired things (like 100x675 modeline ;), but you
> need to know the explicit datas from your monitor and your card.
>
> Here is the doc:
>
> /usr/doc/svgatextmode/monitor-timings.howto.gz
>
> (for text mode, but useful)
>
> /usr/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc
>
> (this is the one to study).
>
> You will need perhaps three hours to read, understand and follow the text.
/usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.gz is also very useful. It
really is a HOWTO in the sense that it talks you through the making of a
modeline and at the end you know everythink about it.
Remco
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