On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Al Stalla wrote:
> I just bought a Gateway Solo 9300 and for the last two days I've been trying
> to get Xwindows to work.
>
> I chose the Unlisted Video Card
> then I chose the Mach64 server
> For the Monitor I chose CUSTOM
> then I chose Non-interlaced SVGA , 1024x768 @ 60Hz, 800x600 @ 75Hz
> then 50-90Hz vertical sync
> it successfully probes my card
> then I reboot and I modify /etc/lilo.conf vga=791, then I run /sbin/lilo
> when I type startx I can see see the Gnome Xwindow starting but it displays
> a bunch of lines and moves the image up and down and just looks bad. It also
> uses the left 75% of the screen, the rest of the screen just displays a
> bunch of lines.
> There is also a constant flickering of the screen.
It sounds to me like you're asking the screen to do a
horizontal frequency it's not up to, for starters. then you'll see
what's going on from there.
Try this stuff: (I'm running on it)
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Primary-Monitor"
VendorName "!!! LCD !!!"
ModelName "SVGA 800X600@60HZ"
HorizSync 31.5-40
VertRefresh 58-62
Modeline "640x480" 25.79 640 656 720 832 480 480 484 501
Modeline "800x600" 40.35 800 816 928 1040 600 600 606 626
EndSection
As a piece of general advice, don't use expert mode unless you're an
expert ;-). The only other thing you'll need to alter is the dac or
dot clock - It should be up at least to 40,000 x 800 x 1.3 or
41.6 Mhz. Let the system probe it, try a couple of X servers and let me
know.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
