On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Frank Murphy wrote: > I've been having problems with a used Apple monitor I picked up recently. I >have an ATI Xpert 98 AGP card with a Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard. The >monitor is model M1823, and it dates from around 1995. I'm running XFree86 >4.1.0 from Debian unstable. Linux kernel 2.4.2. > > The problem is that the black borders on both sides of the monitor are very >big (about 3 cm each side). The borders are better under Win98. > > On boot, the initial BIOS splash screen has the proper space on the sides, >but if I go into Setup (hitting DEL) or if I let it start to boot, the >margins are the same size as what XFree puts them. I assume that this is >related. The initial Windows start screen is also off, but once it shows the >login screen, it's better. > > Anyone here have ideas? My leading canidate is the DDC stuff. I try to >disable it, but I can't get XFree to take my specified ModeLine. I give one a >different name (1024x768m), and try to select it, but xvidtune always shows >the default (1024x768). The ATI docs say that the Xpert98 supports DDC 1, 2a, >& 2b, but I don't imagine that the '95 Apple monitor does. > > So there's two symptoms of the problem. One is how the video displays in >text-mode, and the other is XFree. I'd be happy to just fix the XFree >problem, but I'd appriciate any tips or thoughts or advice any of you would >have.
Make absolutely sure you are editing the correct config file. Most problems I have helped diagnose related to settings being ignored in a config file, end up being that the options were put into the wrong config file. XF86Config-4 if found by XFree86 4.x, will be used. If you've got XF86Config-4, and XF86Config, and edit the latter, the server will never read the config file and never see the changes. This is quite a common problem report, so I thought I would clarify this, even if it is not the actual cause of your problem. To see the config file search path order, consult the XF86Config manpage. Hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
