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Peter R Booth (syzygy@cia.com.au) wrote:
: Hello!
: Before anyone tells me to RTFM, I *HAVE* and I've contacted Samsung who 
: tell me they know nothing about Linux/X. This is my problem...I own an 
: IBM PS2/Value Point 486DX/2-66, 16Mb RAM, 128K cache, S3 801/805 local 
: bus 1024K standard, a 340Mb Western Digital IDE, and a Samsung SyncMaster 
: 3 SVGA 14" monitor. I've ran xf86config, got all the card info, mouse,alt 
: and meta key bizzo down pat. The problem is horizontal/vertical refresh 
: rates. I've experimented with all sorts of settings; no dice. It either 
: hangs my system when it runs startx or tries to run it at a resolution 
: like 1028x740 when there isn't enough video RAM for this. The release 
: docs for this version (Slackware April '96) 1.2.13 don't include specs 
: for the Samsung i've mentioned. I've tried VGA, generic SVGA and 
: Monochrome, so it isn't the S3 card. It isn't due to servers missing (i.e 
: X86F_S3 or whatever)...it's the bloody monitor. Does anyone out there 
: have sample hori and vert. refresh and/or sync rates for this breed of 
: monitor? Please help as I'm going mad!!!
: 'Later
: Peter
: Linux Ignoramus # 2384564

Try starting out with some Generic modelines... use xf86config and specify
CATDT14560396622479
a generic VGA monitor. That should get you going.

If the monitor works with dos/win there's no reason it shouldn't handle X..


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