From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EcwO2-0008Kn-AG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:54:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAI2r9rl019150; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:53:09 GMT Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAI2nKQT017753 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:49:21 GMT Received: (qmail 20090 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2005 02:49:19 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Nov 2005 02:49:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:49:19 -0800 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption Message-ID: <20051117184919.017f1ff8@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890511160250g5eb2d183ge5716e1d6d41a7c6@mail.gmail.com> <20051116175214.06a925c4@chi.speakeasy.net> <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dce17838-fd6d-4d34-a296-1b7e2e912f90 X-Archives-Hash: ad41085a487e039c4bf0e9eaed44eba5 On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" 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 - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list