On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:37:19AM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 01:00 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > Sorry it has taken a while to get back to you about this. > > > > It's probably trying to drive the monitor at a frequency the monitor doesn't > > like. Do you have the monitor configured as per the manufacturer's > > recommendations? > > Yes, of course. See one of my previous mails: > > > > Especially, the settings for horizontal and vertical sync ranges [...] are > > > exactly those given in my monitor's documentation. I apologize for overlooking that. > I want to add a comment. In an earlier mail, I wrote: > > > > So obviously the lack of suitable 24 bit color depth modes leads to the > > > problem with sarge's xserver-xfree86. I changed the color depth to 16 > > > under sarge and it worked. > > My speculation then was that the cause of this problem was insufficient card > memory. The problem occured when I was trying a resolution of 1024 x 768 > with 24 bit color depth which is too much for 2 MB card memory. However, > meanwhile, I found out that the problem is also present when I try to use a > resolution of 800 x 600 with 24 bit color depth where the memory *is* > sufficient. So it seems as if there was a general problem with 24 bit color > depth. Hrmph. That's not good. I presume 640x480 at depth 24 fails exactly the same way? If so, I suspect you're right, and something is amiss in the driver's depth 24 support. -- G. Branden Robinson | Do not attempt to disprove the Debian GNU/Linux | four-colour theorem on your flag! branden@debian.org | -- Josh Parsons http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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