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On 04-Feb-98 Frank Pawlak wrote:
However it doesn't look healthy! I have an ATI 3D Xpression with the Rage II+ chip (4MB EDO RAM) and a Sceptre P511 monitor. When I go flickering line about three inches from the left of the screen for the entire height. 24bpp is even worse. I am using the Mach64 server, it seems to
It sounds like you maybe overdriving your monitor. Check the spec for it and make sure that XFree is set up properly.
Everything seems kosher; I picked the wrong card definition, I chose 3D
My monitor documentation says 30-66 and 50-120 and works fine on 8bpp. If
What server are you using and how are you setting it up. I don't have your earlier post so I don't have the complete background on your problem. How do you start the Xserver? Is you XFree setup within the monitor specs?
As above, I used XF86_Mach64 but last night I found and tried XSuSE_Mach64, exactly the same thing (no surprise)
Sorry for the third degree on this, but it still sounds as if the monitor is being over driven. At lower color depths a lower resolution is generally used.
Ask away! I use the same resolution, 1024x768
setup and the corresponding resolutions I can't determine for sure if the monitor is over driven. Do you have another OS like Windblows installed, does the video system work OK with it? It is possible that your monitor is going south on you, that's why I ask about performance on another OS.
Yes, it works as well as can be expected for Windogs. It's a brand new monitor.
I played a bit with xvidtune, I figured if I shrunk the screen area it be hitting the monitor so hard, but that's not the case, no difference.
It's possible that something is wrong here, but probably unlikely.
Can I set it to some lower performance standard and expect at least a clear screen?
BTW, you might poke around the Linux Doc Project for video setup info, somewhere I found a good document on it. I'll look and see if I can source
I found the Video Timings HOWTO. It's very complex, and I don't necessarily
see the answers in my monitor manual. There are a bunch of clock rates for
EACH VESA resolution, which makes it tough to just type in what the clock rate
is.
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Jonathan Markevich