I'm not up on your particular video card, so I can only offer a couple of
general bits of advice.
1. Are you sure you want to be running the SVGA server? Is there not an
accelerated server for your card? I don't know xconf, but you might try the
more basic xf86config program and see if it offers you a better server choice.
2. Some of the "blah blah blah" you omitted may contain the info you need to
figure out what's up. Before it names the video card, X will examine the
*monitor* horizontal and vertical sync rates you provided and might exclude
some requested bit-depth/resolution combinations based on them. So that
*might* be what is costing you your 1024 * 768 resolution ... no way to tell
from what you've sent us.
At 09:35 PM 3/21/99 -0000, Rupert Burbidge wrote [abridged]:
>I have just spent most of Sunday afternoon trying to get a Matrox Millenium
G200 working under XFree86. Not yet had any luck though...
>
>The problem is that when I load it up via startx, I get a virtual screen of
just 320x204 and on a 17" monitor, and that is a total joke! The actual
desktop seems to be 1024x768. Even when I specify in xconf that only
1024x748 resolutions may be used in any of the colour depths I get this
problem. Yes I have tried editing the configuration file itself and
removing all references to lesser resolutions!
>I think the server is rejecting my card and defaulting to a generic vga
driver which has a maximum of 320x204 res :-(. On exiting XFree86 I can see
the following on my screen:
>
>blah blah blah
>
>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox Unknown chipset (0x0521) rev 1, Memory @ 0xe7000000,
0x01f800000
>(--) SVGA: chipset: generic
>(**) SVGA: videoram 8192K
>(--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18
>(**) SVGA: Using 8bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666
>(--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes
>(--) SVGA: Builtin mode: 320x204
>(--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204
>
>blah blah blah
>
>How can I stop this rejection of my video card? I don't think I have given
any inaccurate information in the xconf. Has anyone else successfully got
one of these cards working? They are pretty common so there must be someone!
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