On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is
> doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer?
>
Yes. Under - Device Driver --> Graphics support --> Select VESA VGA graphics
support
The further down in the Gfx support section --> Console Display Driver
Support -->
<*> VGA text
console
<*> Video mode
selection support
<*> Framebuffer
Console support
> I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone
> mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to
> microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it.
>
Yes, xvidtune. Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox and
follow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I
recall
the path correctly).
Bob
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