Hey Hawke, dunno if you tried this but I used to have a permedia 2 based card and I found an X server on VMWare's site that they had written and found it to be superior to the one that shipped with Xfree. Maybe it will work for your card. - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: Hawke To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 6:27 AM Subject: Re: X server and resolution > 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.) > > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >