Subject: Re: SGI 1600 SW monitor not working with yellow dog
From: brad allison (jackal@aol.net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 12:20:42 MST
Since I didn't hear anything about about not being able to sync YellowDog
to the SGI 1600SW monitor (when MacosX and Macos9 handle it fine) I was
wondering if anyone knows if Mandrake PPC or Debian PPC can handle
1600x1024.
I know that Mandrake is based on RedHat and I know that RH7.2
Xconfigurator supports has the SGI 1600SW in it's list of supported
monitors.
So maybe Mandrake PPC handles it? Anyone know?
-b
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, brad allison wrote:
>
> Hi. I did a couple list searches for 1600x1024 and SGI1600, and found
> nothing.
>
> I have a SGI1600SW monitor attached to a G3 blue and white mac.
>
> Under both MacOS9 and MacOSX I get 1600x1024 resolution at 60Mhz, but
> under Yellow Dog the highest I can get is: 1280x1024-16@60.
>
> I'm using append = "video=aty128fb:1280x1024-16@60" and that works. But
> when I change it to 1600x1024-16@60 it boots up in 800x600. :(
>
> What's worse is there's no option in /etc/fb.modes for 1600x1024 and I
> don't know what the timings line should look like.
>
> Anyone got YellowDog working with a SGI1600SW monitor?
>
> If I knew how to generate the /etc/sb.modes lines I think that would help.
>
> My info:
>
> [root@isis /root]# grep -i vga /proc/pci
> VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE (rev 0).
> [root@isis /root]# uname -a
> Linux isis.office.aol.com 2.4.10-12a #1 Tue Oct 9 04:29:39 EDT 2001 ppc unknown
>
>
> -b
>
>
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