SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?
I recently had the same kind of problem (only with a lot crappier hardware).
What I did wrong was choosing relatively conservative values for hsync and
vsync, which X calculated to give me, yes, 320x200. I then thought, what the
heck, i can't use 320x200 for anything anyways; so what have I got to lose.
In xf86config, I set hsync and vsync as high as I could possibly imagine the
card and screen would go, and it worked! now I have 1024x768 in 256 colours
on an ancient 1Mb ET4000-card...
What you could do down this line with your precious new hardware is to set
hsync and vsync very optimistic, and then make sure that X starts up in the
lowest possible res -then cautiously change to a higher res. once you find
the resolutions you want, edit out the obsolete ones in the xf86config-file.
It seems to me that you've got the card sort of right (since your card is
agp, why not go for that?), and maybe you just need to set the right values
for the syncs.
Anyway, please post detailed info on what you put into xf86config, for more
detailed help.
Hope I'm not completely in deep water, being still a relative newbie. If I
am, please ignore me ;-)
hth
Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
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> Fra: virtanen [SMTP:hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi]
> Sendt: 19. august 1999 16:49
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> Emne: Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?
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>
> (Now the power problem seems to be solved. (Came back to this damn machine
> after some rest. My other debian box works well.)
> The power shut-off seems to be related to that windows-button 'let windows
> take care of power'...)
>
>
> Now again to the video-card and monitor.
>
> The card is as follows:
>
> Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk
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> On-Board Memory 8MB
> Board mapping D8000000
> RAMDAC speed 230 MHz
>
> And the monitor is:
> HL 7870S Hyundai 17
>
> 1)
>
> Does anyone know, which card I should select:
>
> a) Mattrox Millenium II
> b) Mattrox Millenium II AGP
> c) none of the above, which one?
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> 2)
>
> The problem is that I can make X working in a way, but the resolution
> seems to be something like 320 x 200 and no crlt-alt +/- combination
> changes that. (yes, I know that it is meant that numeric keyboard.)
>
> How should I configure the monitor to get an usable screen (now for
> example with fwv95 the panel buttons are so big that almost the whole
> screen is filled with those only) or is the problewm with the video card?
>
> I have used both xf86config and XF86Setup, the result is the same.
>
> -hv
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> hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi
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