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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1807 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:59:09 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:118 comp.windows.x.i386unix:600 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: multiuser, XFree86 questions Message-ID: <1993Feb21.071002.22985@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <C2rJ8I.1Jo@unix.portal.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 07:10:02 GMT Lines: 30 In article <C2rJ8I.1Jo@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: >I am using the patchkit kernel on a Dell 486D/50, which has a built-in >WD 90C31 SVGA with direct 32-bit access to the chip's memory. XFree86 >identifies it as a PVGA1 but does not show any dot clock matching any >of the entries in the modeDB.txt file or the supplied sample Xconfig. >My monitor is a ViewSonic 7, and I tried making my own Clock entry >in the vga256 section of Xconfig to match the dotclocks printed by >X386 and the ViewSonic 7 entry in modeDB.txt. I added the modeDB.txt >entry in the appropriate place in Xconfig. I get a 1024x768x256 mode >to happen, but the picture is VERY unstable, flickers a lot, etc. And >I have been tweaking the numbers in the table for a couple of days now. >If anyone has a suggestion or working entry, I am all ears (like perot :) Can you mail me the list of clocks detected by the server? There are a few patches around for the pvga1 driver claiming to make it work better (or at all?) with the WD90C31. At the moment, the only things stopping them being included are some testing and some code in the Probe() routine to distinguish the 90C31 from the other chipsets supported by the pvga1 driver. If anyone can help with this, please send mail to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au>. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was so satisfied, deep down inside, like a hand in a velvet glove -- AC/DC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------