Re: ATI RAGE IIC & XFree86 4.1.0-16 & problems

[Andreas Hetzmannseder <hetzmann@netway.at>]

Egor Tur wrote on Saturday, September 21st 2002 at 00.20 h (+0300):

> Hi Folks!
> I have ati rage iIIc graphics controller, 2M memory.  I use "ati"
> driver.  Now I have only 800x600 resolution & 24 bit depth.  I want to
> use 1024x768 resolution. How can I possibly do it?  I try this
> resolution with other depth (8, 16, 15) & I hav only black screen.  I
> find DOCs & FAQs in NET but this do not help me :(.  Who have this
> video & who can help me to solve this?
> Many Thanx!

I have this videocard too and I managed to get this resolution with a
color depth of 16, but it gave me problems too.  The display was always
a bit too small horizontally, and much too small vertically, but I could
use the monitor's controls to correct this.

I'm still stuck with potato, so things might have changed with the new
xserver-mach64.

Is it really 2MB of memory?  Mine states it has 4MB.

I remember, I used xvidtune to finetune the values for the modelines,
and I used xf86config to set up the XF86Config file.

I give you the essential entries for my /etc/X11/XF86Config just to give
you an impression of how it might look like to work for you:

---{in the Monitor section}---
# 1024x768 @ 75.5 Hz, 62.13 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"  85  1024 1088 1208 1368  768 800 803 823

---{in the Screen sections}---
# The accelerated servers (... Mach64)
Section "Screen"
    Driver "accel" # not ATI, but don't ask me why... I forgot...
    Device "ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC"
    Monitor "My Monitor"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    [...cut...]
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "640x480" "1024x768" # so I can switch with ctrl-alt-+
        Viewport 0 0
        #Virtual 1280 1024
    End Subsection
    [...cut...]
End Section

I'm afraid, this might not be very helpful to you, as I still have
xfree86-3.3.6...  Hopefully you found at least some hints that might
take you further.

Kind regards,
Andreas.