by Daniel S » Mon, 05 Jan 1998 04:00:00
Why does the Xfree86 show up as 320 x 200 video in a
Matrox Millenium (4 mb) when everything assked for
indicates that the resolution will be much better?
Why does it default to 320 x200 when text mode is 640 x 400?
And the keyboard Ctrl+Alt+(keypad plus) doesn't seem to toggle
for other resolutions.
by Daniel S » Tue, 06 Jan 1998 04:00:00
: Why does the Xfree86 show up as 320 x 200 video in a
: Matrox Millenium (4 mb) when everything assked for
: indicates that the resolution will be much better?
: Why does it default to 320 x200 when text mode is 640 x 400?
: And the keyboard Ctrl+Alt+(keypad plus) doesn't seem to toggle
: for other resolutions.
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Thanks for all the off-list advice.
Yes it is a Matrox millenium II (two) and so
there is no driver.
I've been able to bet it going in VGA16 800 x 600
at least, but that
is not what I expected.
And the pager is still off the top of the screen at
that resolution, indicating an attemp to make a bigger
screen with the physical pixel set.
Still can't use Ctrl+Alt+KeypadPlus to cycle through
any apparent other screens.
by Roy Stogn » Tue, 06 Jan 1998 04:00:00
There is also a newer free server for the Millenium II at
www.suse.com, if I'm not mistaken.
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Roy Stogner
1. Q: two video cards ; dual-headed video ; matrox millenium and hercules ; linux ; work in progress
I've embarked on a quest (not for the weak of heart) to connect an old 19"
SGI CRT to my MGA Linux box. So far I've soldered the sync fusing circuit,
I've installed the RedHat 4.2 (no update to XFree86 3.3 yet). It works.
Image quality is more than adequate for my needs. Whew.
Trouble is: the system comes in text mode. I'm lucky enough to have a PLL
CRT which doesn't get fried that easily (but still the CRT would probably
die after suffering 1 h text), but I'll be seeing only snow should the
system stuck in text mode.
I haven't figured out how to flash the Millenium in text mode (and I have
the suspicion that it might not be easy). SVGATextMode doesn't help me a
bit if I have to deal with the system before it kicks in.
I went the way of the coward: the Hercules way. The Matrox Millenium has
two switches, one for flash write protection, one for switching off BIOS.
(System will hang otherwise). I switched off the BIOS, and plugged in a
Hercules card cum according monitor -- a poor man's dual-headed system.
This approach works great for Lose95: it boots up in text mode, then
jumps to the large screen when doing gfx.
Alas, XFree86 wimps out. It obviously does know the Hercules, but fails to
notice the MGA (lots of "***** deleted" messages). However, I thought
XFree86 can do dual-headed gfx, so there must be a trick to it.
Any ideas?
(Please CC my email address when replying to this message; once the
project is done I'll summarize to the list).
Thanks!
Eugene
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3. Mandrake 9.1 beta - Dissapointed
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5. accessing Win98 printer port from Linux
6. support for Matrox Millenium G-200
8. Matrox Millenium G-200 Drivers
9. Generic SVGA: Can it be better than 320 by 200?
10. 320 x 200
11. X Display won't go above 320 X 200
12. 320*200 ???