jon ewing wrote: > Even so, using aty128fb I should (assuming I find the right timings and > add them to my fb.modes) be able to fbset to a 1600x1200 mode, right?
Right. > I also changed back to using aty128fb, changed the cmode down to 16, BTW, anything other than cmode 8 is a waste of video RAM and speed as the console only has 16 colors anyway. > rebooted and tried fbset-ing to different modes - no difference. > Interestingly (maybe?) I can't fbset to lower resolution modes either - it > seems that if I use aty128fb I can only use 1280x1024; This is weird. Do you give aty128fb any information about your monitor? Or can't the aty128fb in 2.2 kernels really change resolutions? > if i use the OFfb I can get a 1600x1200 console but still need to run X in > 1280x1024. offb does nothing more than preserve the video timings from MacOS or OF. > I wonder if its the monitor that's causing the problem? According to the > specs at the Apple site: > > http://www.apple.com/displays/asd17/specs.html > > The HSync can only operate at 80 kHz. This may be a problem. None of the modes you tried had exactly 80 kHz, though one of them was close (81.2 kHz). > If I change my XF86Config to reflect this then *all* the 1600x1200 modes get > deleted with HSync out of range. Probably because none of them are exactly 80 kHz. Try specifying a small range instead. > Yet OS9 / OSX can both operate at that resolution. I've searched for > XF86Config files designed for this monitor, eg > > http://www.linuxppc.org/blueg3/archive/files/XF86Config-AppleStudio > > but using this config and starting X causes my mac to emit one long beep, > go blank and lock up. Rebooting and looking at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log > tells me that the last thing X did before dieing was: > > (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device... This is the fbdev driver. Have you specified the correct BusID? What about using the mode(s) defined in that XF86Config with the r128 driver? Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
