With s3virge... Went back from vesa to virge because the modelines did not seem to have any effect on the vesa driver and even though I wanted a higher resolution, I would not suffer the low refresh rate that the vesa gave me!
~J�rn Christensen On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 16:46, Kevin Brosius wrote: > With vesa or s3virge? It isn't going to help on vesa. > > > J�rn Christensen wrote: > > > > > > Just tried that... same result... > > > > (Asumed that Horisync was in khz and VertRefresh was in hz) > > > > ~J�rn Christensen > > > > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 13:39, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > No, I don't believe the Trio3d hardware supports anything above 24 bit > > > color. The chipset supports a 32 bit wide mode, but that is 24 bits of > > > color in sparse packing, meaning it stores the 24 color bits in 32 bits > > > of memory. > > > > > > No, vrefresh and hsync are monitor limits. Your log file shows that > > > these are not set. I'd suggest trying to add the options: > > > > > > HorizSync 10 - 12 > > > VertRefresh 12 - 14 > > > Option "noddc" > > > > > > to your Monitor section in the config file. You must change the numbers > > > to match the monitor you have installed. > > > > > > -- > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > J�rn Christensen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Let me know when you have had a chance of looking on the driver... > > > > I have no expertise in this area, but I think it might be a problem for > > > > the driver to allocate enough memory; as I said before the screen > > > > reduces in size when I sellect 24 bpp and is perfect in 8bpp x 1280 x > > > > 960! > > > > > > > > Could you explain to me why there's no advantage of 32 bit? It might be > > > > me, but on Win98 I thought I could tell the difference between a 24bit > > > > gradient and a 32 bit gradient - or have I fooled myself??? > > > > > > > > Setting the vrefresh and hsync is done by Modelines... right? > > > > Well I found some different modelines for 1024 x 768 and the only > > > > difference was where on the screen the picture was placed... (oh well > > > > and the refresh rate...) but I thought it had no effect on the driver > > > > generating the picture...!?!?!? > > > > > > > > ~J�rn Christensen > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 00:53, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > > > Well, don't know any other reason, other than there is a problem with > > > > > the driver. I'll have to take a look and see. > > > > > > > > > > I do see you don't have the monitor settings in the config file, you > > > > > might try setting vrefresh and hsync in the Monitor section. > > > > > > > > > > Also, there's no real advantage to 32 bit, and 24 bit is generally > > > > > faster. (I noticed you mentioned that before.) > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > J�rn Christensen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes... tried that (alogn with XVideo "0")... didn't work... > > > > > > > > > > > > Attached the log and the config file... > > > > > > > > > > > > ~J�rn > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:36, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > > > > > J�rn Christensen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a Trio 3d vidoe card (4mb) and really really want to get a >higher > > > > > > > > resolution than 1024x768. I've just upgraded to XFree86 4.2.1. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem is that when I try to set a higher ersolution (16bpp) it > > > > > > > > only draws a correct width at 1024. The rest (from 1025 to e.g. 1152) >is > > > > > > > > copied from the right side of the perfectly drawn screen. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've tried many settings - even rising the bpp to 24 (I really wanted > > > > > > > > 32, but the s3virge driver doesn't allow this...) but this width to the > > > > > > > > correctly drawn screen only reduces to 800 or 640 (not quite sure...). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would send you a screen shot to illustrate, but my X-window manger > > > > > > > > sees the full desktop and the screen shot does not illustrate the > > > > > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I attach 3 log files from X (-verbos): > > > > > > > > - 1024-768-16.log The current working setup (read: 1024 * 768; >16bit) > > > > > > > > - 1024-768-24.log Broken... > > > > > > > > - 1152-864-16.log Broken... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please help - Its very frustrating on a 17"... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What happens if you add the "noxvideo" option to the driver section? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Kevin _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
