On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 05:24:18PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a few questions involving things that have stumped me for a while... > > > > 1) How do I get a 320x200 modeline for svgalib?? Is there some explanation > > somewhere about how to do this? I cant get quake working :) > > I did it for my card and monitor, but you need to be very carefuland it is > not easy. You can do any weired things (like 100x675 modeline ;), but you > need to know the explicit datas from your monitor and your card. > > Here is the doc: > > /usr/doc/svgatextmode/monitor-timings.howto.gz > > (for text mode, but useful) > > /usr/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc > > (this is the one to study). > > You will need perhaps three hours to read, understand and follow the text.
/usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.gz is also very useful. It really is a HOWTO in the sense that it talks you through the making of a modeline and at the end you know everythink about it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
