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: Steve> I'm a new linux user, and I'm trying to get X to come up on
: Steve> my system. I'm using the x8514new server instead of the
: Steve> Xfree86 one to get better performance. Anyway, I tried using
: Steve> the Xconfig included in the tar file, and it sorta comes up in
: Steve> 1024x768 mode. The problem is that when I move an xterm to
: Steve> the right side of the screen, the whole screen in the band between
: Steve> the top and bottom of the xterm turns black. I figure I've got
: Steve> some sort of Xconfig problem, and after poking around the
: Steve> news group, and re checking the faq's again, I tried some different
: Steve> frequency settings. Unfortunately, the changes I made didn't affect
: Steve> anything.
: Steve> Anyway, I'm running on a 486 DX with 8megs, an ATI graphics Ultra,
: Steve> an Orchestra 15" SVGA monitor, under the linux.99pl9 kernel, and
: Steve> the x8514new X server. Any help is appreciated. Sorry if I'm
: Steve> missing something obvious.
: Enough people have been bitten by this problem, that I've added a comment
: to the top of this Xconfig-file not to expect it to work with xfree86-1.0,
: xfree86-1.1, or x8514new. It seems that pre-xfree1.2 that the ATI Graphics
: Ultra Pro was not properly recognized as an ATI card. This has the effect
: that if you use the correct clock values and carefully compute your modes,
: your Xconfig file won't work! There are a number of people who have
: "guessed" at values that work with their monitor, so it is possible
: to get x8514new working. However, since there is no possible way to
: check that the horizontal and vertical frequencies are within specifications
: for your monitor, I choice to eliminate these guesses from my database.
: If someone submits a file that works with x8514new with a correct
: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro clock line, I'll gladly accept it.
: In the mean time you have three choices.
: 1. You can risk damaging your monitor by trying your own guesses.
: 2. You can risk damaging your monitor by trying some-else's guesses.
: 3. You can use xfree86-1.2 until a new x8514 driver comes out that
: doesn't have this bug comes along. (My understanding is one will
: be included with xfree86-2.0 this fall.)
: I don't claim to be an expert, so I'll be carefully reading any and all
: replies to find-out if some x8514 expert has some better suggestions.
: Bill
: --
: "Yeti! Saw them in the London Underground twenty years ago. Ghosts!
: A headless woman used to walk through my bedroom at midnight. Mermaids?
: Grandpa was rescued from the Marie Celeste by one. Vampires? I always
: wondered where my dad went to at night. Telepathy? Right now you're
: thinking that I'm talking crap. So what can you tell me that I won't
: believe in?" - Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
There is, I think, a common misconception concerning the x8514 X-Server.
It does NOT use the clocks line, because it uses the card in 8514/A mode.
That is, timings are supplied by the graphics-card itself. All ATI-ultra
cards come with a small DOS-install program, which lets you adjust all
timings interactively. The x8514 server uses exactly these timings. So
you can delete all timings from your Xconfig file if you are using the
x8514 server. Some people may have problems using the x8514 server because
they never used the DOS software. By default the card is installed, to
support a standard VGA monitor. That means that the highest resolution
is 640*480. To get the 1024*768 resolution you have to set the timings
correctly using the install program and store them on the card and not
in the Xconfig file.
By the way the newest version of the x8514-server is available on
sunsite.unc.edu under the name x8514scale.tar.Z. This is based on the
Xfree 1.1 release and supports TCP/IP and compressed fonts. It still
supports only 640*480 and 1024*768 modes in 256 colors.
Hope this helps
Thomas Scheunemann
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