Very Computer

I can't for the life of me get my STB Velocity 128 AGP card to work
properly.  i can never get it to go higher than 640X480 at 8bbp.  I'm
running Suse 6.1 right out of the box.  can anyone help me? is the driver
accellerated for the Velocity 128?

Thanks.

winston

You need to customize the XFree86 file. Try Xconfigurator. Otherwise,
doing this right takes some patience. Your card uses the RIVA 128
chipset, has 4MB ram (probably) and runs under the SVGA server.

On my Red Hat system this file is at /etc/X11/XF86Config ...

Look through this file for "ModeLines" -- these control what modes your
X server knows about. What ones it can run are controlled by the monitor
abilities. Check the documentation on your monitor. My monitor works
between 30 and 69 kHz -- you will have to look this up and enter
something on the HorizSync line. Also, you need to add some card
information, the VertRefresh part. I have the same card as you and I use

  VertRefresh 50-120

The modeline business you can get from Xconfigurator, or from

  http://www.inria.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines/list-all

Note that I have defined 1152x900 and other modes. This information is
not presented here. Your mileage will vary, and it totally depends on
your monitor. Try playing with xvidtune if your screen isn't centered
correctly, etc. It is possible to ruin older monitors by using bad
modelines. You have been warned!

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "My Video Card"
    VendorName  "DELL"
    BoardName   "STB Velocity 128"
    VideoRam    4096
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# The Colour SVGA server can start multiple screens like this :
#    startx -- :1 -bpp 8
# and later,
#    startx -- -bpp 16

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    Device      "My Video Card"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultColorDepth 16

    # ctrl-alt-(numeric_keypad_plus) to switch resolutions
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes       "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection

     Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes       "1152x900" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
        Virtual     1152 900
        ViewPort    0 0
     EndSubsection
EndSection