Am I glad I took a subscription on the expert list as well! I have a
card with a i740 chipset as well and I had exactly the same problems. It
is not in the list of supported cards either (CARDEXpert) It doesn't
need settings or probings for the clock chip. I think I just set the
amount of RAM and the screen resolutions I knew my screen could do, as
it does them under Windows.
Jo
Civileme wrote:
>
> As I recall there was an admonition against probing when I installed a
> generic i740 in RH 5.1 after downloading the server from the Red Hat
> site. I just gave the server the information, using xf86config, and
> then hacked on the XF86Config file until it allowed me more than 256
> colors. The Modelines had to be tweaked a little to make them work,
> mostly in the loop timing.
>
> Civileme
>
> Geoff Croxson wrote:
>
> > Hello fellow card holders,
> >
> > I have installed the i740 server, and Xconfigurator/xf86config shows
> > the
> > card as an option. The problem is, my card must be a crappy one
> > (Micro Star
> > Internations), as it does not like being probed, and comes back as
> > asks me
> > for clockset info as well as other things. refresh rates I can
> > handle, but
> > the Clockset does not have an option for i740 or anything I can
> > recognise.
> >
> > My request is that you let me know what you lovely people have set
> > for your
> > particular cards so that I might try them. At this stage I get a
> > 160x120
> > screen or there abouts, with 16 colours(I think), so I can't do
> > anything.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Geoff Croxson
> > -------------
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068
> > Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218
> > Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041
> > University of Technology, Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Civileme Say:
>
> "One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
>
>
