> > Anyway, my system booted and i got the penguin on bootup, and figured
>all
> > must be working just peachy... then i went to run heretic as a demo...
>My
> > screen started jumping, and my monitors menu had a cow. It reported
>that
> > the video card was trying to refresh at 214Hz.
>
>If you use a standard fbcon dirver, you have to set up modelines for it.
>
>Look at the fbset utility that comes with the degas source tree or is
>available from other sources.
>
>These modes are described in /etc/fb.modes
>
>If the appropriate modes are not found, the LibGGI driver will not be able
>to give timings to the card, which usually results in bad timings. You
>should
>have gotten a warning about that at runtime.
Yes, i translated my X modes useing modeline2fb into a /etc/fb.modes file to
no avail. however when i first started i had no /etc/fb.modes file...
where should i find the error message if something is wrong with
/etc/fb.modes?
> > I later found (using the monitor test demo) that whenever i go to
> > 320x240 it pushes it to 214Hz (acording to my monitor). 640x480 seems
> > to work fine. 800x600 8bpp says not enough memory.
>This is a bit strange. 800x600x8 only needs half a meg of RAM, so ...
>We might be able to find a bug here ...
exactly :) anyone we should tell? the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list?
(someone told me about that one today)
> > I have lately heard reference to KGIcon, which seems to be some kind of
> > module to load in. Do i need this if i'm getting the penguin and other
> > 640x480 8bpp tests are working?
>
>No. kgicon is an alternate driver model that is capable of producing
>drivers
>for various environments, including fbcon.
>If you fbcon is working fine, there is no need to use kgicon.
How does that differ from KGI?
> > (by the way i've created a modes database from the XF86Config database,
> > which used to work ok, and it's still going nutty)
>
>You mean a /etc/fb.modes ?
yes, i created it using the modeline2fb program. It seemed to have no
effect.
> > I've noticed multi-heading options only under matrox drivers, is matrox
>the
> > only brand which will nicely remap thier addresses to allow more then
>one
> > card in the system?
>
>No - most modern cards should allow this. I'll give a Dualmon setup with my
>Permedia a try again some day soon. Should work.
cool! I've got access to some Diamond Stealth 2000/3000's, a Voodo banchee,
a ATI Mach 64, a Trident TGUI9440-1, and some STB powergraph 64 (trio64V+)
cards (all PCI). Would any of them do it and have a driver available?
if not, where can i get a list of the cards that do?
>CU, ANdy
>Andreas Beck | Email : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for your help,
Corey
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