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 1EdLTe-0008Up-Cl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:41:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAJ5ecQu020576; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:40:38 GMT Received: from mailout2.igs.net (mailout2.igs.net [216.58.97.88]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAJ5aCcN011149 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:36:12 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-9-134.cybersurf.com [216.58.9.134]) by mailout2.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A62E47E89E for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:36:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:36:19 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:36:19 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption Message-ID: <20051119053619.GA18358@waltdnes.org> References: <7bef1f890511160250g5eb2d183ge5716e1d6d41a7c6@mail.gmail.com> <20051116175214.06a925c4@chi.speakeasy.net> <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 0c3c7449-671f-40dc-b7a4-7270b779118b X-Archives-Hash: 37b0544e6519eb4f7b1b0dbb4f18eea0 On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:56:18AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote > 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. There are two set of constraints... 1) See the page http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines which can generate custom modelines for you system. You need to know the max and min frquencies (horizontal and verticl) for your monitor. I've managed to get 2048x1536 running on my NEC Multisync95... wheeeeee!!! 2) You mentioned it was an ancient card. How much RAM does it have? Under X, here are the RAM requirements... 8 bit colour (256 colours) => 1 byte per pixel 16 bit colour (65536 colours) => 2 bytes per pixel 24 bit colour (16777216 colours) = 4 (yes, *FOUR*) bytes per pixel. A 1-megabyte video card will give 1152 x 864 at 256 colours or 800 x 600 at 65536 colours. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list