Thanx for the info. I just downloaded the prog, as soon as I try it I'll let
you know how it turns out. I can't wait until this Packard Hell burns out as
well when it does I'll give you an invite to the party. ---Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with screen size in X
> G'day, C & D! :-)
>
> I suffered for 3 years with a Packard Hell VGA (note no
> S) monitor. Fortunately, it boiled off its last electron recently and I
> had to buy the cheapest monitor I could find, which is infinitely
> better. The only really nasty thing about it is I could never get it to
> sync at any frequency except 31.5 kHz, but I have a lovely old S3-864
> with proframmable clock chip, so I could use any dot clock I liked to
> make a usable mode for it. I managed to get 640x480, 680x510,
> 800x600x50hz (ouch! Gives me a headache, and trigges epilepsy in some
> folks), and 1024x768 interlaced. I used a little program called vmode
> to generate custom modes for it - takes a little fiddling with the
> parameters you feed the program, as it takes liberties with them, but I
> think its useful for anyone who wants to work a fixed sync or fixed size
> (as in LCD) monitor. I think i found it at
>
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/vmode/vmode-0.1.c
>
> If you want it and can't find it I can mail you a copy. May as well
> anyway, it's small. just uudecode and gunzip it in a directory where
> you want it.
>
> Instructions are comments in the source file. And I'll send you
> the XF86Config I _think_ I used with the Packard Hell. If the vertical
> sync is really limited to 60-70, you won't be able to use some of these,
> but I don't think that is a limitation of the hardware. Mine would sync
> down to where it was painful to watch, but I could tolerate
> 58kHz. You'd have to change the spec in the Monitor section to get X to
> use it, of course.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, C & D Wyman wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the reply, I have had some success with my problem I
> managed
> > to edit XF86Config with the vi editor and created a mode line that
> partly
> > solved the screen size problem but there is still about an inch or so
> of the
> > top of my screen unvisable, the mouse can access the area but as I said
> I
> > cannot see it. It seems the root of the problem is, my video card is a
> PCI,
> > Asus mach64 video/sound card and the monitor is a Packard Bell VGA
> with a
> > limited res of 640x350 however the manual I obtained from the Packard
> bell
> > site says the max screen size is 640x480, the horiz freq is 31.5 with a
> vert
> > of 60-70, One would think that with all this info there would be no
> problem
> > at all. I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) the problem could
> also be
> > that Linux wants to use an accelerated video driver and the monitor is
> vga
> > (did that sound right?) I could hook up a switch so I could use one
> monitor
> > with 2 systems but that would be to easy, besides I'm learning way to
> much
> > to quit now. Also forgive my Windows like way of explaining things.
> It's an
> > old habit that I hope Linux can break me of. Any hints or ideas are
> > appreciated and the mode line I'm using now is.
> > modeline "640x400" 25.175 640 640 760 800 400
> 480
> > 493 525
> > Thanx in advance for any more help.
> >
> >
> # HSF = 31.5 khz
> # VSF = 50.0 Hz
> Mode "744x558"
> DotClock 29.2
> HTimings 744 776 896 928
> VTimings 558 560 565 586
> EndMode
> # HSF = 31.5 khz
> # VSF = 53.7 Hz
>
> Mode "1024x768"
> DotClock 40.3
> HTimings 1024 1056 1248 1280
> VTimings 768 770 775 806
> Flags "Interlace"
> EndMode
> # HSF = 31.5 khz
> # VSF = 39.1 Hz
>
> Mode "680x510"
> DotClock 26.7
> HTimings 680 712 816 848
> VTimings 510 512 517 536
> EndMode
> # HSF = 31.5 khz
> # VSF = 58.7 Hz
>
> Mode "640x480"
> DotClock 25.2
> HTimings 640 672 768 800
> VTimings 480 482 487 504
> EndMode
> # HSF = 31.5 khz
> # VSF = 62.5 Hz
>
> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 17:18:08 EDT
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