In a message dated Tue, 19 Mar 2002  2:47:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, Steinar Bang 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does anyone out there have a Diamond Fire GL1000 Pro card working
> satisfactorily with XFree86 4.x?  Would they care to share their
> XF86Config-4 file with me?
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> I've searched www.google.com, and groups.google.com without being able
> to find such a file.  Most matches are for XFree86 3.x, and arent't
> relevant.
> 
> I have a file that sort of work, but I had to turn off acceleration to
> avoid some annoying "noise" problems in web browser document windows.
> 
> I'm also unsure of my settings in the "Screen" section.  The settings
> below are the ones I ended up with that let me use a 1280x1024
> desktop.  Trying to put this in the "Display" subsection with Depth
> 24, gave me a flickering desktop.
> 
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device     "Card0"
>     Monitor    "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth 16
> 
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     1
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     4
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     8
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     15
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     16
>         Modes   "1280x1024"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth     24
>         Modes   "1024x768"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> What I don't understand is why the above settings makes XFree86 pick
> 1280x1024 on startup?  Does it always pick the highest resolution?
> 
> 
> - Steinar

Hi Steinar,

XFree86 always picks the first screen that works.  You don't have a Mode line in any 
of your Subsections until you get to the "Depth     16" subsection.  There you have 
"Modes   "1280x1024"" as the only resolution.  That's what you will start with if it 
works.

I you want to start with a different resolution change the mode line to read: Modes   
"800x600" "1280x1024"

This will start in 800x600 mode if it works.

Mark LaPierre
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