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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13767 comp.windows.x.i386unix:12786 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!ee!hmctague From: hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: ET4000 at 1280x1024i problems Date: 11 Oct 1994 14:44:54 GMT Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 38 Message-ID: <37e8d6$8d8@bigboote.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ee.wpi.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] I am running XFree86 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 1.1release. I have a Hercules Dynamite video card (Tseng et4000/w32 chipset), and a MAG DX17F 17inch monitor. The video card has 2Meg of ram. I ran the same monitor with a Trident card (1Meg of ram) at 1024x768 interlaced, and had no problems. Since I installed the et4000 card, I have had the following problems: -The relays in the monitor go crazy for a few seconds when changing video modes, more so than they did with the trident card. -When the screen blanks, it turns white instead of black. -At 1024x768, after moving a window, white rectangles sometimes appear. I have only noticed this with xterm, but it probably happens with other clients as well. -At 1280x1024 interlaced (this is the resolution I would most like to use). I have had various degrees of success with different dot clocks, but one behavior is consistent. The bottom 1/3 of the screen seems to fold back onto the top 1/3 of the screen. As you move a client around the screen, weird things happen. After displaying a bitmap in the background and refreshing the screen, it became apparent that the lower 1/3 of the screen did not only fold back onto the top, but was offset as well. In other words, The first few inches(left to right) were wrapped around to the opposite end of the screen. The output from the Xserver said "virtualX != 1024" and then said that it was enabling "Speedups". By the way, I set virtual to be 1280x1024 in Xconfig. I used all of the mode lines for 1280x1024 interlaced that were found in the modeDB.txt file and matched my available dot clocks. I hope this is enough info to get some help. Please email me any suggestions at mctague@ctron.com. By the way 1280x1024 works great in MS windows with the same hardware. Thanks! Henry McTague mctague@olympus.ctron.com