Re: screen blows up!
It is a stupid suggestion, but do you have any of those pesky ViewPort lines
in your XF86Config? If yes, delete all of them, if no your fate lies the way
of Video-Timing-HOWTO. How horrible.
On Thursday 15 November 2001 05:09 pm, Hans wrote:
> Running xvidtune is kind of difficult because I can't get to the buttons
> because of the bloated screen. Any more suggestions? --Hans
>
> At 08:30 AM 11/14/01 -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> >|-----Original Message-----
> >|From: Hans Fong [mailto:hansfong@yahoo.com]
> >|Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2001 05:37 AM
> >|To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >|Subject: screen blows up!
> >|
> >|
> >|Okay, it's not that bad, it's only the screen size.
> >|I'm trying to save an old Compay 75 MHz Pentium for
> >|Linux box at work. Installed Potato, X ran fine.
> >|Upgraded to Woody (testing), ran xf86config, X came
> >|up, but only left-lower quarter of the screen. I wear
> >|glasses already, so no need for a blown-up desktop.
> >|Any idea's on how to fix this?
> >|
> >|I tried a Trident and Tseng ET3000 and both have the
> >|same problem.
> >|
> >|Please CC as I'm at work. Thanks.
> >|
> >|Hans
> >
> >Greetings,
> > I had a similar problem. I ran xvidtune to get it to look right. Once I
> >had the settings properly record, then I modified my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> >to include and use a custom mode:
> >
> >Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "Compaq QVision 172"
> > HorizSync 31.5-82
> > VertRefresh 50-110
> > Option "DPMS"
> > Mode "Good_1024x768"
> > DotClock 94.50
> > HTimings 1024 1072 1168 1376
> > VTimings 768 769 772 860
> > Flags "+hsync" "+vsync"
> > EndMode
> >EndSection
> >
> >Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Default Screen"
> > Device "Diamond SpeedStar A200"
> > Monitor "Compaq QVision 172"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "Good_1024x768"
> > EndSubSection
> >EndSection
> >
> >Now it works fine!
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Brooks
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