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
I'd think your best bet is to use the vga driver, e.g. XF86_VGA16, then you
don't need to worry about the card. Never really used a vga monitor myself.
Even my 1980's 386 monitor was svga :). I have used the VGA Xserver for cards
of unknown type or that didn't yet have support in XFree86.
I'd rather suggest getting a better monitor or use some X environment such as
Hummingbird's eXceed on your PC and use the vga as a text console.
ciao,
der.hans
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