Re: Re: [SLE] Matrox G400 dual-head not working in text-console
Hello,
Hi
Actually text-mode works until I run X the first time. After X, text-mode is not working.. It seems that X leaves the Matrox to another frequency that my monitors are not supporting.
Thats odd -- very odd. Since the console offers no GUI, it
should work like a charm....in theory.
What you can do, is to use a handy utility called:
vgaset
this will list the refresh /frequency rate of your monitor.
You might also want to look at the following program:
SVGATextConsole....
This allows you to tweak your monitor while in text-mode,
as it were.
Incidentally, you might try frame buffering......
--Thomas Adam
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Thomas Adam
"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" --
On October 2, 2001 01:19 pm, THOMAS ADAM wrote:
Hello,
Hi
Actually text-mode works until I run X the first time.
After X, text-mode is
not working.. It seems that X leaves the Matrox to
another frequency that my
monitors are not supporting.
Thats odd -- very odd. Since the console offers no GUI, it should work like a charm....in theory.
What you can do, is to use a handy utility called:
vgaset
this will list the refresh /frequency rate of your monitor.
You might also want to look at the following program:
SVGATextConsole....
This allows you to tweak your monitor while in text-mode, as it were.
Incidentally, you might try frame buffering......
Framebuffer+X is the problem. I recompiled my kernel without framebuffer support of any kind and the problem went away. I also *highly* recommend updating X to 4.1.0 using the SuSE RPMs if you're using a G400 or G450. There are a ton of improvements there. The SuSE README accompanying the RPMs also recommends disabling the framebuffer for those cards. I'm not sure which has the bug, but I highly suspect X. Setting the VGA to normal in LILO shouldn't actually help either as the framebuffer is still going, but I'm not too sure about that. I didn't really want to screw around with it. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com
Hi I'm currently downloading new XFree-86 from SuSE, and reading the documents... There are so much of them, that it will take some time to understand where the adjustment should go, or as James said, disable the framebuffer. Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 2. Lokakuuta 2001 19:56, James Oakley kirjoitti:
On October 2, 2001 01:19 pm, THOMAS ADAM wrote:
Hello,
Hi
Actually text-mode works until I run X the first time.
After X, text-mode is
not working.. It seems that X leaves the Matrox to
another frequency that my
monitors are not supporting.
Thats odd -- very odd. Since the console offers no GUI, it should work like a charm....in theory.
What you can do, is to use a handy utility called:
vgaset
this will list the refresh /frequency rate of your monitor.
You might also want to look at the following program:
SVGATextConsole....
This allows you to tweak your monitor while in text-mode, as it were.
Incidentally, you might try frame buffering......
Framebuffer+X is the problem. I recompiled my kernel without framebuffer support of any kind and the problem went away. I also *highly* recommend updating X to 4.1.0 using the SuSE RPMs if you're using a G400 or G450. There are a ton of improvements there. The SuSE README accompanying the RPMs also recommends disabling the framebuffer for those cards.
I'm not sure which has the bug, but I highly suspect X. Setting the VGA to normal in LILO shouldn't actually help either as the framebuffer is still going, but I'm not too sure about that. I didn't really want to screw around with it.
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