On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:36 am, Christian Convey wrote: > XFree86 Version 4.3.0
CVS? Mine says 4.3.0.1. "Release date: 9 May 2003; Build date: 07 June 2003" (By the way, why is there a leading zero on the build date and not the release date?) > (WW) Option "XkbCompat" requires an string value > (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value >From your XF86Config-4: > Option "XkbCompat" "" > Option "XkbOptions" "" Why do you have these lines? > (WW) VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum I wonder if this is causing us problems. > *Mode: 112 (640x480) > *Mode: 115 (800x600) > *Mode: 118 (1024x768) These three modes (all 32bpp) will fit on your screen. Alas, VESA doesn't define a 1440x900 mode... unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't do hardware acceleration, either. >From XF86Config-4: > Modeline "1440x900" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync VESA doesn't use modelines. > (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1440x900" (no mode of this name) See? :^) > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x1024" (width too large for \ > virtual size) > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x768" (width too large for \ > virtual size) > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "800x600" (width too large for \ > virtual size) > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (width too large for \ > virtual size) 640? Too wide!? >From XF86Config-4: > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1440x900" #"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubsection 1440x900 fails since there's no matching VESA mode. Then XFree86 appears to fall back on its no-Modes-list heuristic, that is, find the biggest usable mode. At least, that's what I think it does---I don't rely on it. Could someone confirm/correct? But why doesn't it try the 320x VESA modes? Mode 10f would have worked, I think... > (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. The end. Does nVidia's proprietary driver work? You said that XFree86's nv driver looks good but futzes up the bottom row of text on your screen. Is it an 80x25 screen? What's the character size in pixels? 9x16? What happens if you set a smaller font? Have you tried SVGATextMode? fbcon? If these questions have been asked before, forgive me. I'm tired. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
