Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

Marshall Heartley wrote:
 
> You can tell SaX2 to start in low resolution mode so you can configure
> your monitor.  Start SaX2 on the command line with the -l flag like so
> sax2 -l and this should get you started.

Doesn't work for me. Same thing happened as in most XFree versions over
many different distros for as long as I've been installing Linux.
Excerpts from SaX.log:

(WW) TSENG(0): Mode pool is empty
(EE) TSENG(0): No valid modes found
(EE) TSENG(0): Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

The problem, as in the past, is that XF86Config actually contains:

Section "Device"
    BoardName	"ET6000"
    BusID	"0:9:0"
    Driver      "tseng"
    Identifier	"Device[0]"
    VendorName	"Tseng"
EndSection

instead of what it needs to contain to work:

Section "Device"
    BoardName	"ET6000"
    BusID	"0:9:0"
    Driver      "tseng"
    Identifier	"Device[0]"
    VendorName	"Tseng"
    VideoRam    4096
    Option	"noaccel"
EndSection

Because it never gets started that way, it never creates usable
modelines. I can edit the file to get some working modes, but never the
maximum resolution supported by the hardware in windoze.
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