Subject: Re: Anyone get 1024x768 on G4(sawtooth)?
From: Dr. Alfonso F. Agnew (aagnew@fullerton.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 13:03:19 MST
I have/had the same problem. Only one or two on this list and the
linuxppc list seemed interested to help. Unfortunately, nothing
suggested worked. I've since become used to the high resolution.
What I understand is that the XF86Config file needs to be hand edited to
put the right modeline in. The problem is that your monitor runs
1024x768 at 99Hz. As far as I can tell, there is no vmode kernel arg
that can handle that high of a refresh rate for 1024x768. Your monitor
will run 1280x1024@75Hz, which is exactly vmode 20.
If you ever get this sorted out, I would love to know the solution.
I've had no luck with Xconfigurator or Xautoconfig4.
Good Luck,
Alfonso
On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 09:21 AM, Keary Suska wrote:
> Sorry, I should have repeated my subject line in my email. The problem
> is
> that I can *only* get 1280x1024, but I *don't* want 1280, I want
> 1024x768. I
> have tried all of the 1024 vmodes (though not all the cmodes--I had
> hoped
> that didn't matter), but all I get is a black screen.
>
> As is indicated, 1280 on a 17" monitor is rather difficult to read, and
> besides that I get some distortion--a kind of "folding"--on the left
> edge of
> the screen. Is there really nobody out there with a sawtooth and ASD 17"
> that uses 1024x768?
>
> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>
>> From: Charlie Watts <cewatts@frontier.net>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:10:18 -0700 (MST)
>> To: "yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com"
>> <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>> Subject: Re: Anyone get 1024x768 on G4(sawtooth)?
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Keary Suska wrote:
>>
>>> I have the ATI Rage Pro card but I can only get 1280x1024 on my 17"
>>> Apple
>>> Studio Display. Has anyone done this? And can I get your kernel
>>> parameters?
>>
>>> From Apple's page:
>>
>> "The newest member of the family is the 17-inch Apple Studio Display, a
>> thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix digital display. This display
>> supports a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels."
>>
>> Not sure what else you are expecting. That's pretty high resolution
>> for a
>> 17" display, anyway..
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Watts
>> cewatts@frontier.net
>> Frontier Internet, Inc.
>> http://www.frontier.net/
>>
>
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