In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote: > | If I reboot into Windows NT, the thing displays 1024 x 768 quite > | happily. > | > | I have studied the stderr output of xinit, and it says > | (--) VGA16: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 > | (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz > | (**) VGA16: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.170 > | (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "800x600" > | (--) VGA16: Removing mode "800x600" from list of valid modes. > | (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "1024x768" > | (--) VGA16: Removing mode "1024x768" from list of valid modes. > | (**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 > | > | Where do I go from here? > > You are using the VGA16 driver here. Not too fun. Try stepping up to > the SVGA driver or even the S3 driver, since you have an S3 card.
Tried both of these. Both locked my machine solid. > The problem given above is that there is no modeline in the Device > section that specifies "800x600" or "1024x768", but you said you > wanted to use it in the Screen section. Use XF86Setup, or something, > and pick the SVGA or S3 card and you will get lots of modelines (a > good thing). There were lots of modelines specifying these resolutions. The problem appears to be that none of these modes matches the available dot-clocks. > Summary : use 'vim' (or other editor) to setup the /etc/X11/XF86Config file > properly and use Alt-Ctrl-Del to reboot, not the power button. I would love to use vi to set the config file up properly, if I could find the information I need to do so. I don't know what clock chip is on my video card, and asking XF86Setup to probe it causes the machine to hang. When the machine hangs, Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect, and all ssh sessions in to the machine go dead (no character echo when you type stuff). -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trumphurst.com/
