Perhaps you are trying to hard (often the case when I have frustrated
myself to death with a problem!). There are two programs available which
can assist you by automatically writing a xf86config file.
Xconfigurator is the one run by the initial install process, and allows
the test at the end to see if the setting work correctly.
The other (older, but more standardized) is xf86config, a text based
system that asks alot of questions but is worth it at times. Hand based
tweaking of the XF86config file is much easier than manually messing with
a totally nonfunctioning copy.
I have a NVidia TNT2 for which I had to get a special xserver, and perhaps
you should look for an alternate x server if none of the above work out.
I find it's usually the case that trouble with configs lies more in the
videocard arena than the monitor specifics.
Best of luck,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, bgf wrote:
> I am installing Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on a Cyrix P166+ machine with 32mb of
> RAM.
>
> I have an STB Velocity 3D PCI (4mb) video card and a Princeton Ultra 17+
> monitor and can not, for the life of me, get things configured so that I
> can run KDE. I have attempted letting the install program probe things
> and this has gone better than in the past. It probes without crashing
> but it always reports that there is a problem setting things up and
> cannot start X.
>
> So I have been trying to do the XF86Config file on my own (reading from
> _Running Linux_) but it would seem that I am not smart enough. Ugh!
>
> Here are the problems I'm having:
>
> Squashed screen (doesn't fill the whole monitor) either it loses half an
> inch on bottom and one side or it is a letterbox screen.
>
> Mouse pointer is a one-inch white square.
>
> Wavering image or totally blurred.
>
> Left side of icons (on left side of monitor) cut or both cut and
> duplicated over on the right side.
>
> That's probably enough for now. Any ideas? If anyone wanted to help me
> out with an XF86Config file, I would love it. I think that my problems
> are coming in the ModeLine area. I just can't seem to get anything going
> there.
>
> I have manuals on both the card and the monitor and will gladly provide
> more details.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> bgf
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>
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