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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