X server and resolution

[Hawke]

He's got kinda the opposite problem from me. I can get mine to work
in all modes up to 800x600. However, any attempt to step up to
1024x768 crashes the video completely (black screen) and will not restore
on terminale prompt.

The vid card I am using is a permedia II based Creative labs Graphics Blaster
extreeme professional (8 megs onboard ram) Unfortunatelly, creative labs
still won't support that card in linux (or any of their other products for that matter)
and they have told me that internal specs on the cards CPU is NOT publically
available. I really wish I had the cash for a better card......

Hawke

Jason wrote:

> John W wrote:
> > The setting is just not available.Distros like Mandrake or Red Hat
> > during test the screen just blinked and never displayed an image. I
> > have 640x480 and 1024x768 the latter is just too small and vice versa.
>
> What Modeline in /etc/XF86Config is currently associated with the
> 1024x768 mode that you are using? If you can find that modeline and
> post it to the list, I should be able to make a working modeline for
> 800x600 from it that will be compatible with your monitor.
>
> What is your monitors horizontal & vertical scan bandwidth?
>
> The info I am looking for looks something like this (and is in
> /etc/XF86Config)
>
> (yes, a plain S3V card and a Princeton monitor sold as a 1200x1024 max
> can do a reasonable 1600x1200! 55Hz is a little on the blinky side
> though.)
>