[Gllug] XF86Config-4 and ATI R128

[Axel Segebrecht]

Well, I remember having a similar problem with my old Matrox G400 - but
that's more than a year ago and I can't remember what I did to fix it
(d'oh!).

Just upgraded from it to the new ATI - which works a dream in windozzze.

Axel

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:57, George Saxby wrote:
> Axel,
> Can you borrow another card that is known to work at 1024 /32, I had a similar problem awhile ago and the video ram was stuffed.
> 
> George F. Saxby
> Systems Engineer
> I.T.S. Team
> 
> >>> axel at segebrecht.co.uk 01/30/03 09:47am >>>
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried a lot of things - including wrestling with all the info I
> could google - yet my desktop refuses to present itself in anything else
> than 16bit/1024x756/60hz ;'(
> 
> Setting the XF86Config-4 to display in 24/1024/75hz doesn't work, in
> fact anything different from 16bit doesn't seem to be working. Also, the
> refresh rate (although set manually and according to my monitors spec's)
> doesn't want to change to something a little less eye-watering.
> 
> Furthermore, q3a doesn't seem to load with full hardware support, which
> is odd as I 'appear' to have all the correct modules/etc for it to run
> nicely.
> 
> BTW. Running glxgears gives me on average: 500 frames in 5.0 seconds =
> 100.000 FPS (max I've seen was 900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 180.000 FPS),
> which is nice.
> 
> I'm running Debian (Knoppix) with Sid/testing/unstable (thanks to zimm
> for helping me with upgrading).
> 
> Help is much appriciated (as always). Can't work at 60hz for long as my
> eyes start watering quite a lot after half an hour.
> 
> MTIA
> 
> Axel
> 
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> http://segebrecht.co.uk/
> 


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