Number 9 PC Revolution Card and SGI 1600SW

Burkard Meyendriesch bm at malepartus.de
Mon Mar 1 04:13:45 PST 2004


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:01:42 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 19:16:46 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> >> On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 18:44:28 -0500, Forrest Aldrich
> >wrote:>
> >>
> >>> Does anyone have a working X config for the Number 9 PC Revolution
> >IV>> card along with the SGI 1600SW Monitor (flatpanel).
> >>>
> >>> I've given up trying to tweak it.   This is on FreeBSD-5.2.1...
> >the>> stock monitor database is rather minimal.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Monitors are usually not an issue.  What problems are you having?
> >>
> >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
> >> If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original
> >> recipients.
> >
> > Well, from the tech specs on SGI.com, I was only able to obtain 2
> > figures, not a "range" as it expects.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're talking about here.  Can you explain?
> 
> > But I selected the default VGA driver, just to get going and it
> > fails to load X (no screens available).
> 
> There are more specific error messages than that.  If you can't
> decipher them, show the last few lines of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
> 
I have the same video board and monitor up and running. Maybe my 
"XF86Config" helps you (especially the Modelines):

--- XF86Config --------------------------------------------------------
Section "Module"
        Load            "dbe"           # Double buffer extension
        SubSection      "extmod"
                # don't initialise the DGA extension
                Option          "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
        Load            "type1"
        Load            "speedo"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Keyboard1"
        Driver          "Keyboard"
        Option          "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
        Option          "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse1"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol" "PS/2"
        Option          "Device" "/dev/psm0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "ReinekeMonitor"
        HorizSync        31.5 - 121
        VertRefresh 60-150
        Modeline "1600x1024d32" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 7 +Hsync +Vsync
        Modeline "1600x1024d16" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 5 +Hsync +Vsync
        Modeline "1600x1024d08" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 1 +Hsync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Standard VGA"
        VendorName      "Unknown"
        BoardName       "Unknown"
        Driver          "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ReinekeVideo"
        Driver          "i128"
        #VideoRam       32768
        # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen 1"
        Device          "ReinekeVideo"
        Monitor         "ReinekeMonitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        DefaultFbBpp    32
        SubSection      "Display"
                Depth           24
                FbBpp           32
                Modes           "1600x1024d32"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Simple Layout"
        Screen          "Screen 1"
        InputDevice     "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice     "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope it helps
Burkard

--
Burkard Meyendriesch
Stevern 2
D-48301 Nottuln
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