tvga9440agi and X 3.1.2B
Ben Carterette
I'm annoyed. I was running XFree86 (on my Pentium 75 running Linux 1.3.45
at the time) version 3.1.2A, and my TVGA9440AGi worked just fine in
1024x768 resolution. So I start up X one day, and it tells me my server
will expire in 3 days! Dangit. So I get the new version, 3.1.2B, and lo
and behold, my TVGA9440AGi no longer works in 1024x768 mode. I get the
display squished up in the top half of the screen and the bottom half
filled with vertical lines. I go back to get my trusty version A, and
what do you know, it's not available anymore. So I have to tinker around
a bit, and the best I can do with the B version is 800x600. Which is no
fun at all.
I know this is a relatively common problem, and it seems to be hardware
independent (except, of course, the 9440 card.). I'm a bit annoyed that
they completely eliminated the A version of the SVGA server... it worked
better for me, dangit.
Anyway, if anyone can help.. thanks.
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Peter Groarke
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Hrair Mekhsian
I see you have Tgui9440agi video cards as well...
This is my problem.. I setup xf86config.. then when i try to run
Xwin it tells me videoram 64k (i've selected 1024k) and then
12xx 10xx virtual not possible not enough memory..
If i play with the XF86CONFIG file I manage to get 320x200 running..
with the built-in generic vga.
But how can i get higher resolution? Can you please tell me how to
configurate because i want to make it work so i can finnaly take windows
from my machine...
Thanks in Advance.. If possible please EMAIL the answer as well as
posting it...
Stephen Mulrine
>So I get the new version, 3.1.2B, and lo and behold, my TVGA9440AGi no
>longer works in 1024x768 mode. I get the display squished up in the top
>half of the screen and the bottom half filled with vertical lines.
Comment out the first 1024x768 modeline. I had the same problem and this
worked for me.
Stephen
Rastislav Stanik
: In comp.os.linux.x, cc...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ben Carterette) wrote:
: >So I get the new version, 3.1.2B, and lo and behold, my TVGA9440AGi no
: >longer works in 1024x768 mode. I get the display squished up in the top
: >half of the screen and the bottom half filled with vertical lines.
Let us establish a "Club of unhappy TVGA9440AGi users"! Hm?
I've got the same problem. At first I played with XF86Config and after a
few hours I got quite good result: 1024x768x256. Satisfied I left
my machine at 3 a.m. Next day I booted up my Linux and the screen was ...
(you know it). I lost next 4 hours playing with XF86Config without any
success.
Now, the funny thing.
I booted once again and this time Micro$hit Win 3.11.
I closed it so quickly as possible :-) and booted Linux again.
Viola! X-server decided to work!
I must say that I have TVGA9440AGi driver installed in Windoze
and I use the same setting: 1024x768x256. And running Windoze without
this driver instaled does not help, of course. My monitor is
MicroScan4v/ADI running on 70Hz. Linux version 1.2.1.
Well and one another thing. In the time when I was using previous
version of 9440 Xserver it helped me to comment out one unused "Modeline"
in XF86Confing. Ever seen such a thing?
Any questions?
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Stephane O. Genaud
> Let us establish a "Club of unhappy TVGA9440AGi users"! Hm?
>
resolution mode. My chipset is TGUI9440-1 and is recognized by xfree86 programs
as a Trident unknown model, and automatically set my videoram size to 256 ko as i have
1024. I can startx only if a choose the 16-color VGA server from the xf86config prog.
which switch to 800x600 at best. So how did you achieve a 1024x768 resolution ?
Please, mail.
Thanks.
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Rastislav Stanik
: >
: > Let us establish a "Club of unhappy TVGA9440AGi users"! Hm?
: >
: Ok, i might join the club if ever i can make Xfree86 work _once_ in a 1024x768
: resolution mode. My chipset is TGUI9440-1 and is recognized by xfree86 programs
: as a Trident unknown model, and automatically set my videoram size to 256 ko as i have
: 1024. I can startx only if a choose the 16-color VGA server from the xf86config prog.
: which switch to 800x600 at best. So how did you achieve a 1024x768 resolution ?
Number of colors (SVGA or VGA16) depends on symbolic link /usr/lib/X11/X.
If this is link (for example) to XF86_SVGA, then X-server is looking for
Section "Screen"
in XF86Config which contains line
Driver "svga"
The same section contains line
Modes "1024x768"
-> in my case - I have only this one mode confingured. You can force X
to use this resolution if you delete "800x600" entry from your Modes line.
Or you can add "1024x768" entry and use Ctrl+Alt+KeyPadPlus to switch
between resolutions. X server will use the first, which 'works in his
opinion' at startup.
Timings and frequency for selected resolution are specified in line
with keyword Modeline and specified resolution. In my case:
Modeline "1024x768" 70.0 1024 1024 1064 1240 768 779 785 817
BTW, my chipset is recognized as tgu9440agi.
I think, it is because of lines:
BoardName "TGUI9440AGi"
VideoRam 1024
Chipset "tgui9440agi"
ClockChip "tgui
in Screen section. I'm using last XF86_SVGA server from sunsite (3.1,2).