Ok, making progress. I installed 6.8.2-r1, did X -configure and its working, well mostly. Two problems.
well first, it seems like its running at a really high resolution, I always ran at 1600 which I thought was the highest this card could do (I vaguely remember it being the highest in windows). And at this resolution the refresh rate is not right, it seems awfully low. if I have a white background I can lines moving on the screen. Second, fonts are huge! fonts in web pages seem normal, but font in everything else is way out of proportion. The only change I made from the xorg.conf created for me was to change driver from "ati" to "radeon" which didn't make any difference. And putting modes in the display section to try to get it to go to 1600, again, no luck. maybe it is 1600 and my eyes decieve me, I don't know. I tried with no luck to decifer xorgs log. Almost there, any more suggestions would be great. I'll start digging through forums at work tomorrow, right now I must go somewhere else, the monitor is already giving me a headache. I attached my new xorg.conf for ur viewing pleasure. On 4/21/05, Lucien D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ah, thanks. As to what Richard said about hsync, he's probably right > those values may be bad, I'll get rid of them. Though I don't even > know if X is abiding by them, when I look at the > on screen menu for the monitor its showing hsync of 106 and vsync of 85. > > > On 4/21/05, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lucien D. wrote: > > > > >>Section "ServerFlags" > > >> Option "off time" "4" > > >>EndSection > > >> > > >> > > > > > >I have nothing in ServerFlags. Whats this setting for? monitor off, > > >or backlight, or what? > > > > > From man:xorg.conf: > > Option N'34'OffTimeN'34' N'34'timeN'34' > > sets the inactivity timeout for the "off" phase of DPMS mode. time is in > > minutes, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1x). > > Default: 40 minutes. This is only suitable for VESA DPMS compatible > > monitors, and may not be supported by all video drivers. It is only > > enabled for screens that have the N'34'DPMSN'34' option set (see the > > MONITOR section below). > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > >
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