On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use Toshiba Portege 4000 which has a Trident CyberBlade XP/Ai (or
> something like that) graphics chip that works only with the vesa driver in
> XFree86 4.1.0. It works fine with the internal TFT display. However, when
> I define my external monitor in the XF86Config with the correct refresh
> ranges, X doesn't go for higher rates than 60 Hz. I know my monitor can do
> at least 85 Hz at 1024x768 resolution, and it works fine with my desktop
> computer. Is there something wrong with the vesa driver or my laptop?
> 
> I can manually insert modes in the monitor section in the config file but
> when I force it to use any of those modes it always goes to 1280x1024
> resolution with 87 Hz, even when the modeline says for example 1024x768
> resolution and 76 Hz...
> 
> Now am I seriously stupid or is there something seriously wrong?

Do you have both /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ?
Are you changing the one that the server is reading (look in
/var/log/XFree86.?.log to see which the server is using).

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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