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Greetings,

Must all of this type of info is easy located using your favorite seb
search tool, and I suppose Reading The Fine Manual or HOWTO in this case
wouldn't hurt either!  Just because a monitor and/or video card is not
listed during the configuration screens, has little bearing on the
proper functioning of each after a little bit of head scratching.  This
is only true when you have the following information to lead you down
the right path to properly configure each device and have each work
within each others capabilities.

Here is the specs on the monitor as found at the url of:
http://www.advantage.co.nz/products/mnd1772.htm

The important monitor info being:

Horizontal Frequency             30-72 kHz, autosynchronous
Vertical Frequency               50-120 Hz, autosynchronous
Video Bandwidth                  110 MHz
Maximum Resolution               1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz
Resolutions and Refresh Rates    1152 x 864/870 up to 75 Hz
                                 1024 x 768 up to 85 Hz
                                 800 x 600 up to 100 Hz
                                 640 x 480 up to 110 Hz



Of course here is the info on the vid card found at:
http://www.sparkle.com.tw/products/sp368.htm

Chip Set: S3 Trio 3D/2X+, 368 
BUS TYPE: 2X AGP
Memory Size: SP368/4M,8M SGRAM/SDRAM
Driver supports: Windows95, Windows98, WindowsNT4.0
Size: 14.4cmX8.4cm

    
Resolution & Colors         BPP       Refresh Rate (HZ)

640x480-256c/64Kc/16Mc      8/16/24   60/72/75/85
800x600-256c/64Kc/16Mc      8/16/24   56/60/72/75/85
1024x768-256c/64Kc/16Mc     8/16/24   43/60/70/75/85
1152x864-256c/64Kc/16Mc     8/16/24   60/70/75/85
1280x1024-256c/64Kc/16Mc    8/16/24   43/60/75/85
1600x1200-256c/64Kc         8/16      48/60/75/85

taking the info on the monitor and video card we wind up with the
following info!


/etc/X11/XF86Config  #note: any values outside of this range will be
automagically bypassed.  These values are for the monitor capabilities
NOT the video card!
    HorizSync   30.0-72.0
    VertRefresh 50.0-120.0

modelines with the following resolution values

640x480
800x600
1024x768
1152x864
1280x1024 

delete any modeline values with 1600x1200 to be on the safe side!
Use the default values for the above values.  Once up and running, run
xvidtune to "tweak" the setting to your desires.  All screens can be ran
in 8,16, or 24 bbp.

Have funb learning a few more things along the way.  If you have
problems, email me.

Bill...


Marcus Leonard wrote:
> 
> Hunting around, the S3Trio 3D card seems to be mostly supported (I think...)
> in XFree86, so I'll not assume that I have any idea what the problem is, and
> just ask if anyone knows what the hell is going on on the screen as
> described below, and how do I fix it???
> 
> I originally wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------
> Friend of mine has:
> 
> Monitor: Mitsubishi Diamond View 1772ie
> Video Card: S3 Trio 3D/2X (2X AGP accel)
> 
> and, with Mandrake 7.0 (r2) we cant find the exact monitor listed, so we
> selected "generic monitor". Now we get only basic 640x480 res (no other
> options available in X-config) and the mouse pointer is a big square block
> (ichh...)
> 
> SO:
> 1. Anyone know of monitor driver, or can we use a "similar" Mitsubishi
> driver or something else?
> 2. Video card not listed on mdk or RH supported cards list (earlier S3 cards
> are). Presumably this is where the biggest problem is. What do we do? Any
> drivers? Or do we get another card for X?
> 
> Any help met with tearful thanks,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> --
> 
> Marcus
> mdl@NOSPAMnetspace.net.au