hi.
There are some terms in XF86config with no explanation... i tried to find
help on terms like HTimings,hdisp,hsyncsstart etc. these terms are used in
man pages of XF86config but there is no formula as to how to calculate
these terms.
--manish
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, L Singh wrote:
> Hi
> Going by the number of questions posted on the problems with X and the
> various video cards, it seems that this is a very big problem being faced
> by all users. In fact u r in luck if the card setup works out fine for you
> the first time around.
>
> In fact, I earlier had a S3Trio card. I tried to set it up for use with RHL
> (5.2 uptil 6.1), but the xf86config or Xconfigurator would not get me
> anywhere. I tried all the possible combinations that the thing offered to
> me, but to no avail. Someday, on excessive tinkering with the XF86Config,
> the thing worked (pretty ugly, but enough for me to proclaim that "X runs
> on my system" !!)
> The fact that I had an unsupported monitor (Samtron 5Ei) made the things
> difficult, although the card was there in the database.
>
> Since then, I have shifted to SiS 6326, and it is working fine even at 24bpp.
>
> Continuing, one of my friends has Debian 2.2 on his system with i810
> motherboard. The best display he could get was 320x200. Is there any way to
> make the X run normally on his system.
>
> PS :::::>> Going by my experience, whenever you set the runlevel to 5, in
> inittab, the X server starts somehow, even when it might not start well
> when run from the console in normal (runlevel 3) logins.
>
>
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