🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:03:11 -0700, 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!!!

It's a good idea to delete, or comment out the resolutions you don't want in
the XF86Config file.

Down the bottom of the file in the 'screen sections' delete resolutions you
can't run the monitor / video card at --- and put the resolution you want to
be the default, first.

In the 'monitor section' just have YOUR monitor defined (use the generic svga)
if you don't know the monitor frequencies.  Also delete or comment out any
modes that should not be supported.

Cheers, Tony.
[grumpy@minkirri.apana.org.au]