On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 00:26:39 -0700, Rick Commo wrote:
> Well, after a message from Greg Madden I reinstalled Woody from scratch
> using the 2.4 Kernel and X86Free V4.1. And as per Harold Bibik's post, I
> went to Matrox's site and downloaded the latest drivers. That got rid of
> the "missing mga_hal" message.
>
> However, it still can't seem to find any screens that it likes. I have
> included the XF86Config-4 file and the output from "startx 2> startx.log"
> after the signature.
>
> What bothers me is why it's unhappy with the screens section, given that
> this was created by a tool. Unless of course the syntax/content of the file
> is fine, but the xserver is probing the hardware and comes up with some
> issue. To reiterate, the card is a Matrox Millenium G200 and the monitor is
> an AOpen F50L LCD panel.
>
I had a similar problem. X kept crashing, complaining that there was no
correct screen size it could use (or something like that). What I did
was to edit the XF86Config-4 file generated and changed the screen
section so that it only had the option of the screen resolution I
wanted. For example here is the relevant section of my XF86Config-4
file:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Notice that I have only 1024x768 available for the default depth of 24.
Before I changed things it all the Modes lines looked something like:
"640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
I don't know if this will help you, but I think the problem for me was
that 800x600 was included in the available modes.
Cheers.
Mark.
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