[vox-tech] monitor troubles

[Jennifer Stickel]

I tried that driver and it doesn't work with the 2.6 kernel, so I am 
using the one that came with X.

I think part of the problem may be that it isn't seeing that it has 
enough memory.  I edited the line in the XF86config file to say that it 
has 64MB of video RAM, but using kinfocenter it only thinks that I have 
4MB of video RAM. 

Jennifer


Mark K. Kim wrote:

>You can add all modes, in the order of your preference, like this:
>
>      Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>
>so you don't have to try each one.
>
>Anyway, that's the sidenote.  Since you got the sync information, set the
>hsync and vsync rates in XF86Config:
>
>      HorizSync     30-100
>      VertRefresh   50-160
>
>Furthermore, your video card needs to be supported by X.  It looks like
>Intel has their own driver and a support page:
>
>   http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/graphics.htm
>
>Neat.
>
>-Mark
>
>
>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jennifer Stickel wrote:
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>>I found the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and edited a few times.  Here is
>>the most recent one that I tried:
>>
>>Section "Screen"
>>
>>    Identifier    "Screen0"
>>    Device    "VideoCard0"
>>    Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>    DefaultDepth 16
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Depth        16
>>        Modes        "1024x768"
>>    EndSubsection
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>    Depth        24
>>        Modes        "1024x768"
>>    EndSubSection
>>EndSection
>>
>>When I restart X, I don't get any errors but the screen is still the
>>same size.
>>
>>Is there a tool I can use to figure out the amount of video RAM or do I
>>have to look for manuals that might list that?
>>Thanks for all the help,
>>
>>Jennifer
>>
>>Jonathan McPherson wrote:
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>>>Jennifer,
>>>
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>>>>Yes it is an LCD monitor.  I tried running xvidtune and got the message
>>>>"Video are not settable on this chip".  If I check the control center,
>>>>it says that the screen size is 640x480 and has no other options for
>>>>it.  How else can I up the resolution?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>The first thing I would try is to follow the other poster's suggestion
>>>and manually edit the configuration file.
>>>
>>>However, if that doesn't work, you may be running into the same problem I
>>>have had with my LCD monitor: XFree believes that you can't support a
>>>higher resolution because it doesn't have the right specs on your monitor
>>>and video card.
>>>
>>>You need to tell xfree that your monitor has a very high range of
>>>horizontal and vertical synch frequencies, and that your video card has
>>>at least as much video RAM as it actually does.  XFree will not allow you
>>>to change to a resolution that it (a) doesn't think your monitor can
>>>handle or (b) doesn't think you have the video memory to maintain.
>>>
>>>You can do this in the configuration file mentioned by the other
>>>poster--the places on the file that you need to make the changes
>>>should be obvious.
>>>
>>>-jam
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