Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> On Saturday 03 September 2005 23:47, Archaic wrote:
>
> > I would try to confirm on a livecd. If the problem still exists,
> > your hardware is bad. If not, rebuild the driver.
> >
> Hardware is OK, as a SuSE Linux 9.3 running on a parallel partition
> works with many resolutions withouth problems. What means "rebuild
> the driver" exactly ? rebuild the kernel or rebuild XF86 ? For
> information, here my XF86Config:
>
[SNIP]
I failed to notice a section like this there
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
That bit tells it which lines to use.
I would also mention that I have had unusual behaviour traced to
borderline specs. Let's say you have 62khz as hor. synch and the
modeline turns out to be 62.4.
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With Best Regards,
Declan Moriarty
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