[XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread Donald E Haselwood
John, Thanks for the response. (I hope this turns out OK, as I finally had to transfer the email from Win98 to Linux, as well as copy the file from the machine in question. I couldn't get the file end-of-lines converted from Linux to Windows--spent most of the afternoon trying to sort it

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread John Tapsell
On Thursday 30 January 2003 8:34 pm, Donald E Haselwood wrote: John, Thanks for the conversion tip. Using MS Word did not occur to me! I tried everything else, e.g. file transfer with samba, etc. you can use ftp. Make sure it is in text mode before you do the get. This btw is the

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread John Tapsell
Sir, You wouldn't be able to move around because the virtual size is the same as the view size (i.e. 320x200). Okay, do: mv /etc/X11/XF86Config{,.backup-30012003} redhat-config-xfree86 (without the -4 this time) JohnFlux On Thursday 30 January 2003 9:03 pm, Donald E

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread Donald E Haselwood
John, Okay, do: mv /etc/X11/XF86Config{,.backup-30012003} redhat-config-xfree86 (without the -4 this time) Same result. Just after typing 'redhat-config-xfree86', and before it gets into graphical mode, the following lines prints-- ddcprobe returned bogus values I wonder if

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread Lionel Lecoq
a possible hint: in the old days this type of problem used to occur when the graphic card was not recognised. The current solution was to use one of the universal server (3.3.6) or driver(4.x.x) in your case that would be vesa (regretably not accelerated...) Lionel --- Donald E Haselwood [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-30 Thread Donald E Haselwood
Lionel, Thanks. The 'vesa' tip got it going sufficiently well to get 'redhat-config-xfree86' to work. From there I selected the Trident TGUI9660 card, and Gateway monitor. Selecting the Trident card also selected the 'trident' driver, which resulted in things going back to the original zoomed

[XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-28 Thread Donald E Haselwood
RedHat8.0, P100, 48MB, Trident TGUI9660. I've used 'xf86config' in about every combination that I can think of, all resulting in a screen that looks like it is zoomed in about 20x. I get the same results with RH6.2 With the magnification so great it is not useable. Similarly, I found that

Re: [XFree86] Trident TGUI9660: looks zoomed in about 20x

2003-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
Can we see your log file please? /var/log/XFree86.0.log JohnFlux On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Donald E Haselwood wrote: RedHat8.0, P100, 48MB, Trident TGUI9660. I've used 'xf86config' in about every combination that I can think of, all resulting in a screen that looks like it