--- "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Frank Murphy wrote: > > <snip> > > > 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. No, I am able ot change the XFree config file and have the changes be taken. For example, I disable the ServerLayout section to get gdm to fail so I can run startx myself. (Yes, it's cheating, but it works.) So I know that I'm using the proper config file. I've seen reports on this list about not getting the DDC stuff to be disabled, too. I'm interested in ideas about how video hardware communicates, and how XFree configures this. I also don't know if DDC is actually the problem. I'd appriciate help on troubleshooting this. Thanks again for your help, Frank __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
