I've just installed dvisvga and discovered that it can't seem to
handle resolutions higher than 320x200. Now I have a SVGA card that
should be capable of handling 1024x768 --- certainly, this is the
resolution of X. When I try I get the following error:
fatal error: display: no such vga-mode on this machine
How can this be? How can I fix it?
If this uses svgalib, then you should see man vga.conf, and edit that file
(vga.conf) somewhere in /etc/vga or I don't remember where...
Thanks. It is /etc/vga/libvga.config
I set about editing this file for my card and monitor. After doing
this, sure enough, when I run dvisvga it now is able to attempt the
1024x768 resolution. The only problem is that it is not terribly
successful.
It starts up and the screen goes white (appropriate for dvi viewing I
suppose), but there are some slightly sloping funny lines on the
screen, a bit of text down the bottom --- ie the screen looks like it
has partly got there but gone wrong. And this only lasts for about
a second or two before it totally blacks out leaving nothing.
I tried it the first time while X was still running. When I got back
into X I found things seriously stuffed up. The next time I decided
to get out of X before running it --- should I be able to run svgalib
stuff at the same time as X?
Anyway, I'd appreciate any help on getting the libvga.conf settings
right. I include my current settings below.
Thanks,
Mark.
P.S. Perhaps the problem is that my ARC chipset is not properly supported
by svgalib? Here's some info from my XF86Config:
Section Device
Identifier Mark's video card
VendorName legend
BoardName PV32
Chipset ark1000pv
Ramdac ark1491
Clocks 25.00 28.32 39.33 71.90 50.00 76.49 35.94 44.25
Clocks 127.49 118.03 78.69 31.15 108.58 63.72 73.65 93.53
#VideoRam1024
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Anyway, here's my libvga.config as promised:
# Configuration file for svgalib. Default location is /etc/vga.
# Other config file locations: ~/.svgalibrc
# where SVGALIB_CONFIG_FILE points
# Lines starting with '#' are ignored.
# Have a deep look at README.config to see what can do here (especially
# for mach32).
# Mouse type:
# mouse Microsoft # Microsoft
mouse MouseSystems # Mouse Systems
# mouse MMSeries# Logitech MM Series
# mouse Logitech# Logitech protocol (old, newer mice use Microsoft
protocol)
# mouse Busmouse# Bus mouse
# mouse PS2 # PS/2 mouse
# mouse MouseMan# Logitech MouseMan
# mouse Spaceball # Spacetec Spaceball
# mouse IntelliMouse# Microsoft IntelliMouse or Logitech MouseMan+ on
serial
port
# mouse IMPS2 # Microsoft IntelliMouse or Logitech MouseMan+ on PS/2
port
# mouse none# None
mouse unconfigured
# (DEBIAN NOTE: the mouse used to default to microsoft, but this was changed
# to fix bug #13458. If your mouse used to work fine, you can simply change
# it back to read microsoft again. If you are careful to change *only that
# one word*, and not to add or remove extra whitespace, the package
# installation will continue to update this file without requiring user
# intervention because of a modified config file.
# This applies to all mouse types, not just microsoft.)
# Mouse/keyboard customisation by 101 (Attila Lendvai). If you have any good
# ideas you can reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# mouse_accel_type normal # No acceleration while delta is less then
# threshold but delta is multiplied by
# mouse_accel_mult if more. Originally done by
# Mike Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mouse_accel_typepower # The acceleration factor is a power function
# of delta until it reaches m_accel_mult. It
# starts from the coordinate
# [1, 1 + m_accel_offset] and goes to
# [m_accel_thresh, m_accel_mult]. If delta
# is bigger then m_accel_thresh it is a plain
# constant (m_accel_mult). It is the f(delta)
# function with which the delta itself will be
# multiplied. m_accel_offset is 1 by default,
# so for delta = 1 the accelerated delta will
# remain 1 (You don't lose resolution). The
# starting point of the f(delta) function
# might be moved along the Y axis up/down with
# m_accel_offset thus defining the initial
# minimum acceleration (for delta = 1).
# Basically it's like
