Re: Gateway monitors and X

[David Wright <D.Wright@open.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brian Sheehan wrote:

> i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running
> with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700)

Unlike Viglen's Envy 17ES, it's unable to perform adequately at
1280x1024, managing only 60Hz which is really flickery. 1152x864
is just about adequate at 70Hz. In this respect, I guess it's
comparable with the Envy 17DS which is all Viglen now supply at
this size.

But my wife uses one; here's a summary of XF86Config:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "EV700"
    VendorName  "Gateway"
    ModelName   "EV700"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 64.3
    VertRefresh 50-90
# then some standard mode timings which could be pruned further
#          640x480 @ 72 Hz, 36.5 kHz hsync
 Modeline "640x480"     31.5   640  680  720  864   480  488  491  521
#          640x480 @ 75 Hz, 37.50 kHz hsync
 Modeline "640x480"     31.5   640  656  720  840   480  481  484  500 
-HSync -VSync
#          800x600 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync
 Modeline "800x600"     40     800  840  968 1056   600  601  605  628 
+hsync +vsync
#          640x480 @ 85 Hz, 43.27 kHz hsync
 Modeline "640x400"     36     640  696  752  832   480  481  484  509 
-HSync -VSync
#          800x600 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync
 Modeline "800x600"     50     800  856  976 1040   600  637  643  666 
+hsync +vsync
#          1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 48.4 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1024x768"    65    1024 1032 1176 1344   768  771  777  806 
-hsync -vsync
#          1152x864 @ 60 Hz, 53.5 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1152x864"    89.9  1152 1216 1472 1680   864  868  876  892 
-HSync -VSync
#          800x600 @ 85 Hz, 55.84 kHz hsync
 Modeline "800x600"     60.75  800  864  928 1088   600  616  621  657 
-HSync -VSync
#          1024x768 @ 70 Hz, 56.5 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1024x768"    75    1024 1048 1184 1328   768  771  777  806 
-hsync -vsync
#          1024x768 @ 76 Hz, 62.5 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1024x768"    85    1024 1032 1152 1360   768  784  787  823
#          1152x864 @ 70 Hz, 62.4 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1152x864"    92    1152 1208 1368 1474   864  865  875  895
#          1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync
 Modeline "1280x1024"  110    1280 1328 1512 1712  1024 1025 1028 1054
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "My Mach64"
    VendorName  "ATI"
    BoardName   "Mach64"
    Option      "power_saver"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "My Mach64"
    Monitor     "EV700"
#    Monitor     "ENVY 17ES"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1152x864" "1024x768"
#        Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
#   Remember that SuspendTime will cut out the loudspeakers too
    BlankTime 5
    SuspendTime 30
#   OffTime 60
EndSection

Cheers,

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