Re: Solved -- Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)
kickass, glad it works now :)
nate
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote:
boonst >Hi Everybody
boonst >
boonst > First off, a very big thank you to nate, Brian, and Bryan for all
boonst >your help. Just 3 more pillars of the Debian community.
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >The Problem
boonst >
boonst > With a monitor capabale of achieving (even exceeding) 1600x1200
boonst >resolution, a Diamond FireGL 1000Pro with 8MB VRAM would not exceed
boonst >1280x1024. This video card is a GLINT Permedia2 chipset, served by the
boonst >3DLabs accelerated server.
boonst >
boonst > Proper modelines were present for 1600x1200, as in
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst ># 1600x1200 @ 70 Hz, 87.50 kHz hsync
boonst >Modeline "1600x1200" 189 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 -HSync -VSync
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >and the modes were defined in the server
boonst >
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst > Subsection "Display"
boonst > Depth 24
boonst > Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
boonst > ViewPort 0 0
boonst > EndSubsection
boonst > Subsection "Display"
boonst > Depth 8
boonst > Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
boonst > ViewPort 0 0
boonst > EndSubsection
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >but Ctrl-Alt-+ would never obtain the high-res mode.
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >The Solution
boonst >
boonst > The key information was bit depth. The X server defaults to depth
boonst >8, for which I had no 1600x1200 mode defined. At first, I tried to set it in
boonst >depths 24 and 32, which still didn't work. The ultimate reason was that my
boonst >hardware does not support 1600x1200 at these depths.
boonst >
boonst > Ultimately, the problem was solved by putting the line
boonst >
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst > DefaultColorDepth 16
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst >
boonst >into /etc/X11/XF86Config, and by starting X with
boonst >
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst >:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -bpp 16 -dpi 100
boonst >---------------------------------------
boonst >
boonst >in /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers.
boonst >
boonst >
boonst > A little quality time with the Font Deuglification guide, at
boonst >
boonst > http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
boonst >
boonst >and I am a happy guy.
boonst >
boonst >
boonst >
boonst > Thanks,
boonst >
boonst > Brian
boonst >
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