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RE: Diamond Stealth 64 Video vram
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Rabson)
Sun Oct 18 11:07:34 1998
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:03:15 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugo Rabson <hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk>
To: m.holland@shef.ac.uk
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Hi,
Perhaps you could adjust the horizontal frequency, which is... umm....
lemme see;) brb
Around line 200...
# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 50-90
Do you get the problem with straight SVGA? Using Xconfigurator, you could
try different drivers and monitors, find a combination which works (e.g.
640x480, SVGA, 8-bit colour depth) then move towards your ideal settings.
On 18-Oct-98 Martin P Holland wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have the above card and I use it on RH5.1 with the S3 server for X
> (Xconfigurator autodetects and the card does have an S3 chipset) in
> 16bpp
> 800x600. It basically works ok but there is one small annoyance. On the
> right-hand-side of the screen I get tiny flickering horizontal white
> lines,
> especially noticable when I use scroll bars. (Incidentally, in win95
> directx
> also sees an S3 chipset but I don't get this flickering.)
>
> I can live with this but...can my monitor? Is there something I could do
> to
> tweak my X config file?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Martin
>
>
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