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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!prl.ufl.edu!kem From: kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree86, ATI Ultra Pro and ViewSonic 21 Date: 19 Jan 1994 21:46:49 GMT Organization: University of Florida Parallel Reasearch Lab. Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2hk9o9$8v5@snoopy.cis.ufl.edu> References: <1994Jan18.234346.4234@cs.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zoyd.prl.ufl.edu In article <1994Jan18.234346.4234@cs.cornell.edu>, cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) writes: |> Hello all. |> |> I have a 486 (running NetBSD 0.9) with XFree86-2.0 running. I have a |> ATI Ultra Pro VLB card with 2Meg of VRAM, and a ViewSonic 21 monitor |> (lucky me!) |> |> Anyway, I got all this stuff so that I could run X in 1280x1024 at 74 HZ |> but I'm having trouble getting this to work (it seems to work fine under |> Microsoft Windows by the way). |> |> Does anyone have this configuration, or any other configuration with |> the ATI Ultra Pro running at 1280x1024? When I try and run the dot |> clock at 110 or 135 Mhz, I get an error message back that says |> "Maximum dot clock is 80 Mhz". What is this silliness from? |> Did I not set the EEPROM correctly on the video card? |> |> Thanks! |> Craig This is a current limitation in XFree86-2.0. There's nothing you can do but wait until XFree86-2.1 is released, which will support clocks higher than 80Mhz. -- -- Kelly Murray (kem@prl.ufl.edu) University of Florida Parallel Research Lab :: 96-node KSR1, 64-node nCUBE Send mail to ncx@netcom.com for deals on Actix S3 Video cards: ISA Actix GE32 1mb: $129, GE32+2mb: $179, Ultra+2mbVram: $299 -------------------------------------------------------------------------