Well, usually it does.. I had it at 1024x768 before, but for some reason, even
though I configured it for 800x600, it was coming up at 320x200.
"PATRICK C. GENTRY" wrote:
> Wow.. that's strange. The S3 Virge driver won't go up to a high
> resolution?
>
> On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:12:46 -0500
> > From: Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: video card troubles
> > Resent-Date: 14 Nov 1999 17:15:29 -0000
> > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > When I originally installed 6.1, it detected the correct video card.. I was
> > using the S3 ViRGE driver. There is no option to disable the onboard video in
> > the BIOS, only by jumpers on the motherboard, which has been already properly
> > jumpered for the last year :-)
> >
> > "PATRICK C. GENTRY" wrote:
> >
> > > The onboard video is disabled in the BIOS? What driver did you use before
> > > your monitor went out?
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:52:17 -0500
> > > > From: Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: video card troubles
> > > > Resent-Date: 14 Nov 1999 16:56:28 -0000
> > > > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >
> > > > Recently, my monitor died, so I had to use my backup 14" monitor to
> > > > temporarily replace it. Now, normally, I could just use Xconfigurator
> > > > and change the resoultion from 1024x768 to 800x600. Unfortunately,
> > > > Xconfigurator does not probe the right video card. I have an ASUS SP97V
> > > > motherboard that has onboard video, yet it is disabled, and I am using a
> > > > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 w/4M VRAM. Xconfigurator detects the onboard
> > > > video chipset instead of the actual video card :-( Thus, I sent off to
> > > > manually run xf86config. I picked the correct video card, and the
> > > > correct monitor specs, and attempted to use the S3 ViRGE driver (which
> > > > is the correct driver for my video card chipset). I chose the 800x600
> > > > video mode in 24-bit color (this works fine in Win98). When I attempt
> > > > to start X, it starts in 320x200 or some odd resolution. I then
> > > > attempted to just use the SVGA driver instead of the S3 ViRGE driver.
> > > > This gave the error:
> > > >
> > > > There is no mode definition named "800x600"
> > > >
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > No valid modes found.
> > > >
> > > > I tried doing this in all color depths:
> > > > startx -bpp 8/16/24
> > > >
> > > > all of which resulted in the same error.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas why this is happening, and how to fix it?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Aaron
> > > >
> > > >
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