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Re: Riva 128 video question.......
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Sun Nov 8 17:44:42 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 48409 15:19:59 -0600
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On Sat, 07 Nov 1998, JShoberg wrote:
>Ok,
>
> The highest resolution I can muster in X is 16 bpp at 800x600.
>Wondoze98 does 1280x1024 in 32 bit True Color. Any suggestions for getting
>X in a higher resolution? After looking at www.xfree86.org I couldn't find
>much specific to my video card (STB Velocity 128, 8mb AGP). Thanks
>
>- jon
Hola,
I have the same card running 1024x768 with the SVGA X server. Do you
by chance have an old onboard video chip? And how are you setting up
the card: Xconfigurator of xf86config.
Xconfigurator would only recognize my old onboard Cirrus Logic, so
I had to run xf86config, and then hand-edit /etc/XF86Config so that
only the Riva 128 device and my chosen display settings were present.
Specified the hardware settings, and everything worked.
It's similar to building kernels: make xconfig and make menuconfig are
easier, but make config is more reliable. xf86config is the "make config"
for setting up your X display.
Apologies if all of this is obvious to you...
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX
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