From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 17:46:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C69937B4D7 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA31351; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:46:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:46:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: David Harnick-Shapiro Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X configuration, Rage IIc video card, mystery monitor In-Reply-To: <200010240008.RAA17124@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Harnick-Shapiro wrote: > I can't quite get X configured; at best, I get a clear image on the > left half or so of the screen, and that same image repeated another > time or two, often less clearly, on the right side. (Does this imply > a bad horiz sync value?) It means that the H-rate is too high for the monitor, and the monitor is locking to half the actual horizontal frequency. Therefore you see the image twice, over the width of the screen. You'll need to set X to run at a lower H-rate, but how low is, as you say, a mystery. > The box is an eMachines etower 333k, which means it has an ATI Rage IIc I'm using a Rage IIc in this 3.1R box. I know, time to cvsup... anyway it works OK for me with a Nokia 447Xi monitor. Here are the relevant parts of my XF86Config: --- Cut here --- 8< --- cut here --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- Section "Monitor" Identifier "Primary Monitor" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 31-91 VertRefresh 50-150 Modeline "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1316 1420 1592 1024 1055 1058 1092 Modeline "1152x864" 137.65 1152 1184 1312 1536 864 866 885 902 -hsync -vsync Modeline "1024x768" 115.50 1024 1056 1248 1440 768 771 781 802 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC" VideoRam 8192 EndSection --- Cut here --- 8< --- cut here --- 8< --- CUT HERE --- HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message