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Author: Kenneth
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To: Mark Phillips, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Video card problems
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
> () (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
>
> 602 524-0376
> 480 945-9197 fax
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