On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make > > some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X > > just set the values for you?
When X says "no valid modes", what it means is, "based on the information about the card that you have given me and/or what I have been able to gather, I can't continue." In the case that spawned this thread, the user didn't tell X what dot clocks were supported by the card. X tried to find out, but only found one at, I think, about 28.something. The video modes specified all required dot clocks of 31.5 or more. In this case, there was nothing X could do. It couldn't detect faster clocks, and the user didn't tell it about faster ones, so it did the only safe thing and quit. Given a large enough monitor and card database, maybe something could be done. Or if vendors supplied Linxu info files... Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... ...oh wait, he does." - Nate Fox