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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!mcshub!flex.eng.mcmaster.ca!todd From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) Subject: Xconfig and xclck program Message-ID: <1993Apr6.223457.5415@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Keywords: XFree86 Xconfig xclck console Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: flex1.eng.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 22:34:57 GMT Lines: 38 I'm having a h#$$ of a time trying to generate a working Xconfig mode for my Sun Hitachi 19" colour monitor and ATI Mach 32 video card. X386 recognizes the video card as an ATI Wonder Plus and it prints out the possible clocks. I've inserted a Clocks line in Xconfig so X386 starts successfully but the monitor doesn't sync. I've tried adding some new modes based on the timing information I have but I've had no success. In some cases, I can see some motion on the screen as I move the mouse, and I can cycle modes with CTRL-ALT-+/- and exit the server with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. Does anyone have any suggestions (other than get a multi-sync monitor :-)? Somewhere I read about the existence of an xclck program which will give an Xconfig mode line in response to a dot clock frequency and horizontal and vertical sync frequencies. Where can I find this program? On a related topic, is there any way to have the console come up in a different mode so as to take advantage of a high resolution, high frequency monitor? Since my Hitachi monitor doesn't sync standard VGA I still need a VGA monitor as well in the DOS world, but I would think I could eliminate this hassle in 386BSD. How would I go about this? Would I simply need a program which can put the ATI controller into a different mode, or would this capability have to be built in to the console driver? -- Todd Pfaff \ Internet: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Dept. of Mechanical Engineering \ Voice: (416) 525-9140 x2902 McMaster University \ FAX: (416) 572-7944 Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L7 \