On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > It should have been the right one. That Mattrox Millenium seems to be > > using SVGA. > > > > Someone suggested using ctl-alt-+(num) to switch between resolutions. > > That method never worked. There was only that one resolution available. > > > > There might be support for that card available in later xfree-debs, I'll > > see...? Someone suggested that. > > > > But yesterday night the whole system crashed again. There has been a > > strange problem with the machine. Sometimes while booting the power goes > > off suddently and then the whole system is unusable, because the whole > > file-system is broken then. It made it again... > > I'm no guru, but this is damn peculiar.
I'm getting tired of this. But it might be the case that I just have to remember to shut the power off altogether before booting debian... because it lasted this time quite long... before it... I noticed that someone > mentioned that you grab the latest X. Do you know what version > you're using? Is the G100 listed in the card database? It wasn't there. I was just upgrading for that 3.3.3.1.-10 when the whole system crashed (again). That might be the solution for the whole thing. I'll try to do that nex time, if I once more install debian in this damn machine... > I have a > G200 myself, and I had to upgrade to 3.3.3.1-10 cuz the X on the > slink CDs didn't support my card. > > Also, when specifying the horizontal and vertical frequencies, > are you pressing <Enter> after entering each range in the > appropriate box? I noticed that when you don't, the values you > type in aren't reflected in the red bars indicating the ranges. I > don't know if this is significant, but it doesn't seem to hurt. I don't think that I did that. > > To switch between resolutions you press the combo Ctrl-Alt-(+/-) > to cycle forward and backward thru them. > That did not work at all. - hv
