Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:22 am, Felix Miata wrote:
The actual error message was:
"You passed an undefined mode number."
I also have a 9.0 system with a G400, and it behaves the same way. :-( However, I get no such error using ET6000 video on Mandrake 10.2 on the same Sony 200GS display, or using ET6000 video on RedHat 6.2 on the same 200GS display, or using ET6100 video on SuSE 9.2 on a 2nd 200GS display, which also does vga=794 just fine. And, all that work AFAIK have never had any special config program run to make 791 or 794 work. In fact, it seems the GUI Linux installers all seem to use either mode 791, or something higher, maybe 794, or some still different framebuffer mode? vga=778 works with the G400 during the first phase of boot, 143x43 I think, but it switches to only 21 lines shortly before "creating /var/log/boot.log" displays. It seems to me the monitors themselves are fine. I read http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 but it isn't clear that it applies to a G400 or that it isn't an optional way to configure for Matrox.
I'm not trying to change any X settings here. Are you saying I have to configure *monitor* (display) settings somewhere in Linux config files for use on tty[1-6], and that's what sax2 -l should do? All it seems to affect here is X.
Based on your original error message it sounded like you needed to configure the monitor.
"You passed an undefined mode number." is different. That is the video driver and framebuffer settings you've identified. I see this on a client's server with embedded video (maybe 8MB video memory). I've tried the various vga= settings and none of them work on this machine. X and KDE work just fine when needed.
I'd say you are on the right track for fixing this. Is the video card still good? Does it display well in X? High resolutions and 16, 24, 32 bit color?
I didn't try higher than 1600x1200x16, which works fine in KDE except for blasting the pc speaker repeatedly while initializing. 1600x1050 makes everything too tiny for me on a 17", so I backed down to my customary 1400x1050x16. More bits don't help me - I can't see the difference between 16 and anything higher. It's kinda hard to comprehend this limitation when more primitive hardware doesn't have it. -- "In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/