Subject: Re: Monitor Display Problem-Help Please! :)
From: Robert Serphillips (rserphillips@austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 00:35:03 MST
Same problem here. It's an Issue with Xfree 4.1
I'm using a Umax J700 (8500 clone)
ATI rage orion
XLR8 Mach Carrier G4 450
Sony 17" 200ES
I was able to get 1024x786 @8bits which is lousy seeing as I'm currently (ydl 2.0 xfree86 4.0.2) running at 1152x864@16bits. Sorry I can't be more helpful but I'm sticking with ydl 2.0 until all of the bugs are removed from the 2.1 update, which might be never as it's most likely an XFree issue. With this problem and the fact that the 2.4.10 kernel doesn't boot on my machine (even thought the 2.4.4 kernel works perfectly) has made the upgrade very dissapointing.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:20:25 -0600
Brian Egeness <brianfe@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Hello YDL community (my first time here and really glad to be here),
>
> Ok...I have an issue that needs your help YDL community!!! Here's the
> facts.
>
> My system:
> Powermac 8500
> XLR8 MACh Carrier G4 card 450MHz w/ 1MB Backside Cache
> 17" Multiple Scan 1705
> OS 9.1
> Open Firmware 1.0.5
> YDL 2.1 Commercial CD Install
>
> The issue...and be gentle :)! The install went smooth as chilled Absolut
> except for this one problem...after selecting the proper monitor from the
> install setup and arriving at the KDE GUI, on my display monitor, transposed
> over the entire screen is what looks like a 50 lane highway. I've got 50
> rows or so of vertical, transparent, white dashes transposed over the GUI. I
> had to adjust the vertical and horizontal with the monitor adjustment
> buttons as the desktop was squashed but really not an issue. I've searched
> the community's mailing list for an answer to no avail. I've found no
> mention of a similar issue. I'm using an XLR8 MACh Carrier G4 upgrade card
> and thought that might have been the issue. So...I pulled the card, reset
> the cuda switch, and replaced the original 604 120MHz card. Rebooted into
> YDL and walla...same problem! Any clues guys?
> I was very excited about YDL 2.1 and the upcoming BlackLab release
> but...right now I'm pulling my hair out tryin to get this to work. I would
> have bought the support option had the tech support not told me that it was
> a snap to install on my machine. I've got 3 silver software coasters as it
> stands and 14 hours lost on tearing my computer apart repeatedly, putting it
> back together, and reconfiguring settings. I even went so far as to
> reconfigure the bandit settings for video output and monitor devices in Open
> Firmware 1.0.5 of this cpu and issued a boot command but...same issue. White
> dash highway. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to provide
> you with more info I will do so gladly. I'm really looking forward to
> joining the YDL community. You guys have a great thing going here.
>
> TIA,
>
> Brian
>
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