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Hey, folks!
There is a bit of a problem with either my monitor or my Xconfig. I
have a Oak oti077 based card with 1M videoram and it should work
just fine -- I know. What I want is to force it working under 65MHz
dot-clock, although it seems I'm having difficulties. Here they are.

        - Monochrome server works ok except that I'm having  a little
          garbage (snow-like) on the screen when moving windows.

        - 16 color server does not have these problems but it has a
          different one: two images are overlapped vertically. They
          look like this:

                        +---------------+
                        |               |        
                        |               |  <- First image
                        +...............+
                        |               |  <- Second image
                        |               |
                        +---------------+
          the images are identical but shifted vertically one with respect
          to another, so it looks like there is a second ghost.

        - 256 color server does not work. Well, it works but images are
          now "spread" horizontally: I have five of them.

So, could someone, please, explain me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you very much in advance,

                        Sergei

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It sounds like your Xconfig is completely off.  Where did you get your
ModeDB settings from?  I would advise you against using X until you resolve
this since you can do severe damage to your monitor.  What I recommend
is to download the mkxconfig util from sunsite and it will build you a
decent Xconfig file.  

sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/config/mkxconfig.tar.gz

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Quote:>>There is a bit of a problem with either my monitor or my Xconfig. I
>>have a Oak oti077 based card with 1M videoram and it should work
>>just fine -- I know. What I want is to force it working under 65MHz
>>dot-clock, although it seems I'm having difficulties. Here they are.

>>        - 16 color server does not have these problems but it has a
>>          different one: two images are overlapped vertically.

>It sounds like your Xconfig is completely off.  Where did you get your
>ModeDB settings from?  I would advise you against using X until you resolve

Well, I can't really damage a monitor as it's a mulisync, and I do not
clock it above the bandwidth. However, I suspect that 65.40 that the
card gives and 65 that monitor allows to go all together give me some
sort of a "side effect".

Quote:>this since you can do severe damage to your monitor.  What I recommend
>is to download the mkxconfig util from sunsite and it will build you a
>decent Xconfig file.

I made mine with ConfigXF86

        Sergei

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+Department of Physics & Astronomy, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA+
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: >>There is a bit of a problem with either my monitor or my Xconfig. I
: >>have a Oak oti077 based card with 1M videoram and it should work
: >>just fine -- I know. What I want is to force it working under 65MHz
: >>dot-clock, although it seems I'm having difficulties. Here they are.
: >>
: >>      - 16 color server does not have these problems but it has a
: >>        different one: two images are overlapped vertically.
: >
: >It sounds like your Xconfig is completely off.  Where did you get your
: >ModeDB settings from?  I would advise you against using X until you resolve

I have been running my WD90C33 on the 16VGA server until lately when I
found an SVGA server which could handle the WD90C33.

On the 16VGA I experienced the same problem with overlapping images. It
happens when you use an aspect ratio which is different from 4:3 - for
example when using a higher dot clock but keeping the same horisontal syns.

I tried the same on the SVGA server, and it didn't overlap the images,
so I guess the problem is caused by a bug in the 16VGA server.

     Jens