[vox-tech] monitor troubles

[Mark K. Kim]

If it doesn't work with the 2.6 kernel, that's too bad...  And XFree86
4.40 doesn't seem to support that video card.  So perhaps you should try
the vesa driver:

        Driver       "vesa"

-Mark


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jennifer Stickel wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Jennifer,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>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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