I followed through the Xconfigurator and selected only the 640x480 and it
still went to 320x200. Do you have the config file that I can look at?
-=>Jim Roland
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, abhinav wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:53:25 +1100
> From: abhinav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: B Mohrgan Pratten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Earle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
linux-laptop mailling list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Which X server for Neomagic?
>
> In previous battles I have had with redhat I have used the good old Xconfigurator
> to force the resolution that is required
>
> my old Transport VLX had a Neomagic card and all one has to do is allow the above
> program to do its thing and
> then do not accept the deafults that it selects for you and it gives you the
> choice of different resolutions
>
> In SuSE (my weapon of choice) one can use various methods...this is what I know
> of RH though
>
> hope that helps you...
>
> Jim Roland wrote:
>
> > I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop with this same card (new laptop), however RH
> > 6.1 seems to always send it to 320x200 mode. How can I get it to go to proper
> > higher resolution (1024 or 800x600) like it does in Win9x? What settings do I
> > need to setup for scan and refresh rates (if that's my problem)?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jim
> >
> > B Mohrgan Pratten wrote:
> >
> > > Hell Jon,
> > >
> > > I have a ThinkPad 390X that also has the NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV and I
> > > am using RedHat 6.1.
> > > On the XFree web site http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html they list
> > > the XF86_SVGA server as the server to use with the Neomagic "card".
> > > That is what I am using and it seems to work ok.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps.
> > > Ow you could have a look at the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.neo
> > > for x-config info.
> > >
> > > Mohrgan
> >
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