Need help with Gnome and Video card

illoai at gmail.com illoai at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 23:52:36 PST 2006


On 11/15/06, Ne'Bahn <ne.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> my conf looks like:
>
> HorizSync        31.5, 35.15, 35.5
> VertRefresh    50-70
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier            "Standard VGA"
>     VendorName    "Unknown"
>     BoardName      "Unknown"
> ....
> Driver    "vga"
> Section "Screen"
>     ...
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth            16
>         Modes            "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort        0 0
>         ...
>
> So I have the same trouble, very low resolution (BIG characters), and about
> 4 colors depth (black, white, pink, cyan or some kind similar), like the old
> ones EGA...

Your HorizSync & VertRefresh lines are _extremely_
conservative, add another "Monitor" section, populated
as you wish with funny names:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "LlamaLlanoLlautu"
        VendorName   "Nancy Pelosi"
        ModelName    "Tim Curry"
        HorizSync 31-92          # Note:  Do Not Use These
        VertRefresh 55-160     # Numbers, Look It Up For
                                            # Your Monitor.  You can do
                                            # real damage with bad numbers.
                                            # (It is actually an NEC E750)
EndSection
. . .
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "LlamaLlanoLlautu"
. . .

I would think that the limit on the number of possible
"Monitor" definitions would be quite large, you might
want to leave the default vga stuff in there, just in case
you happen to need it at some point, just change the
"Screen" section to reflect what you are using.

http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html

has been quite useful to me in the past looking up refresh
rates on equipment for which I did not have the documentation.

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