I'm not an expert, it always takes me a few rounds of tweaking the config file to get things like I want, but the suggestions I would have are first to make sure it's detecting your monitor correctly, and second to look at the server log (with xorg its something like /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I haven't used xfree for a while, but I assume it has a similar log. This can get very long, but sometimes you can see why it isn't using the mode you expect. --- Mark Phillips wrote: > I have new debian installation (Linux version 2.6.8-2-386 > (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) > > #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005), but I am having problems with the video > card and xfree86-4.3.1. > > The video card is an ATI 3D Charger AGP. Some research shows that it has > the > ATI Rage II/C video controller and 8 MB of on board ram. This card is > supported with the "ati" driver according to the xfree86 documentation. > > However, I can only get the display resolution up to 800 x 600. When I run > the > same system under Windows 2000 (it is a dual boot machine) I get much > higher > resolutions - up to 1280 X 1024, which is consistent with the ATI > documentation for this card. I have not found any documentation from the > xfree86 side that talks about resolution restrictions in the "ati" driver. > > I have included my XF86Config-4 file in case someone can see what I am > doing > wrong (generated by running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86). > > # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) > # > # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades > *only* > # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 > # package. > # > # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically > updated > # again, run the following commands as root: > # > # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom > # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "GLcore" > Load "bitmap" > Load "dbe" > Load "ddc" > Load "dri" > Load "extmod" > Load "freetype" > Load "glx" > Load "int10" > Load "record" > Load "speedo" > Load "type1" > Load "vbe" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI 3D Charger AGP" > Driver "ati" > VideoRam 8000 > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "24 inch Behemoth" > HorizSync 30-72 > VertRefresh 50-120 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "ATI 3D Charger AGP" > Monitor "24 inch Behemoth" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 1 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 4 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" > "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > InputDevice "Configured Mouse" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem! > > -- > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > 602 524-0376 > 480 945-9197 fax > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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