On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Lou Spironello wrote: > Yes, I'm using the stock RH7.2 X. It's a clean machine. I bought a new board > last Friday and loaded standard RH7.2 on a new disk. The motherboard had an > onboard SIS630 video chipset. > I was having difficulty getting that chipset to work with my monitor. Both > XFree86 --configure, xf86config and Xconfigurator were all giving differnet > results, none of which would produce any viewable screen content. However, > there was a lot of horizontal interfierance lines on the screen (i.e. edge > borders were jaged, which I assume to mean that the horizontal sync was not > correct, even though I had inserted the correct values during configuration and > the correct values where inserted in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.) > I did some investigating by going to the Xfree86 site too look at the status > docs for the SIS630 drivers and also to the SIS web site to see if they had > anything. There were a number of patches of older version of X, i.e. 3.??? and > 4.0????. I was using 4.1.0-3 on the new machine.
> I also noticed that they made an explicit recommendation to confi the onboard > memory for the card (i.e. the shadow ram) to 4096K only! My new board could > only go down to 8MB. I then decided to buy another card, the ATI. The > configuration process always produced the 320x204 res screen, with no virtual > scrolling, i.e. the screen res was set to 320x204 without any mechanism to move > through the virtual window. ctrl-alt-(+|-) keystrokes didn't work, yet they > worked for the other config???????? Ah!!!! Your log shows that the ATI adapter is defaulting to 640x480. If you want more than that, you need to specify the HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges for your monitor in your XF86Config. For switching resolutions, you also need to specify the names of the modes you want on a Modes line in the relevant display subsection. As for the on-board SiS, I don't know. It's not within my "territory", so someone else will need to help you it. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
