Re: tft monitors -- advice? XF86Config's?
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:27 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> michael wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:42 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> >
> >>hey folks,
> >>
> >>well, after failing to make my last TFT monitor work, I returned it
> >>for a fefond and thought I'd wait to hear back form debianites about
> >>getting another model to work. Has anyone gotten a 19" TFT monitor to
> >>work perfectly with X? Are you happy with the results? And,
> >>especially, could you be willing to post parts of your XF86Config
> >>files (or is there somewhere else one hsould look for them) so that I,
> >>and some of the other folks who seem to have this issue, can try to
> >>figure out what's going wrong?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I've a Sony SDM-X93 and I recently posted the rel parts of my
> > XF86Config-4 on this very list
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> hey michael, um, I thought you posted to say you were having trouble
> with that very monitor -- anyway, this is what I find in the archives:
>
> >> hhmmm, what's 'no mode of this name'? Do I have to define a mode or
> >> something?
>
>
> > this is the same problem i've having, for a Sony SDM-X93 so if anybody
> > knows the correct modeline for that I'd be mega-thankful
>
>
> any chance you posted the corrected xf86config-4 somewhere else?
>
> matt
>
Matt - later I posted under the video card heading
SOLVED: ati rage XL - supported or not
since I then thought it was the cause of my woes! As it turned out, all
I did was add the higher resolution stuff to more color depths, put the
refresh rates from the manual and then it seemed to work, here's the
diffs:
$ diff XF86Config-4 XF86Config-4~
85,86c85,86
< HorizSync 28-80
< VertRefresh 48-75
---
> HorizSync 28-50
> VertRefresh 43-75
109c109
< Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
---
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
113c113
< Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
---
> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
Assuming I can post txt attachments my config file should be attached.
HTH
Michael
>
--
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SDM-X93"
HorizSync 28-80
VertRefresh 48-75
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "SDM-X93"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
#michael added new modes & virtual
# Modes "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
### Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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