Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution and Driver
From: Neil Jolly (njolly@home.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 06:48:53 MST
Phil Kirschner wrote:
> First of all, thanks for responding. Secondly, here is everything I
> think you could possible want to know in order to help me out:
>
> Beige G3 Minitower
> Apple Multiple Scan 15 Monitor
> MacOS display is /pci/ATY,mach64_3DU (says dmesg)
> Using unsupported 832x624 ATY,mach64_3DU at 82800f00, depth=32,
> pitch=3328 (also from dmesg)
> "No Video Driver" is checked in BootX
> I'm using XFree86 3.3.3.1-49b
> I'm also using Xconfigurator-4.2.4-1a
Firsy uncheck the no video driver box. Next add a video argument to bootx
like: "video=atyfb:vmode:17,cmode:24". Boot into linux, and rerun
Xconfigurator. Setup your video as desired, and exit Xconfigurator, witout
running the test. Run startx, and you should be done.
>
>
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