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From: Bob Sanders <rmsand@concentric.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:49:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117184919.017f1ff8@chi.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is
> doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer?
> 

Yes.  Under - Device Driver -->  Graphics support --> Select VESA VGA graphics support
	The further down in the Gfx support section --> Console Display Driver Support -->
								<*> VGA text console
								<*> Video mode selection support
								<*> Framebuffer Console support

> I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone
> mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to
> microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it.
> 

Yes, xvidtune.  Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox and
follow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I recall
the path correctly).

Bob
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 10:50 [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption Alan E. Davis
2005-11-17  1:52 ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-17 14:56   ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-18  2:49     ` Bob Sanders [this message]
2005-11-18  3:11       ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-18  4:54         ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-19  5:36     ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-19  5:57       ` kashani
2005-11-20  3:45         ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-20 14:02           ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-25  0:29             ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-25  0:32               ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-19 15:46     ` Hans-Werner Hilse

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