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Andreas Neubacher

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Sep 29, 1993, 10:46:47 AM9/29/93

I'm posting this for a friend:

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 14:20:42 +0100
From: Gerald Klima <kl...@donau.boku.ac.at>

While trying to run X386 under linux on my PC I encountered the following
very disappointing problem:

Let's assume the screen should look like this:

------------------------------------
| |
| |
| --------- |
| _| _ _ |_ |
| |_| |_| |
| | |_| | |
| | _____ | |
| --------- |
| |
------------------------------------

then the picture actually displayed on my monitor looks like this:

------------------------------------
| |
| |
| ------------|
| __| __ _|
| |__| |
| | |__| |
| | _________|
| ------------|
| |
------------------------------------

i.e. I only see approx. the left 35-50% of the picture (I can't tell the
exact figure since I've never seen what the whole screen looks like), and
the pixels are approximately thrice as wide as they are high.
I have played with the spreadsheet (modegen1.sc) supplied with the
X386 distribution for linux for a while, trying resolutions from 640x480 to
1280x1024 but the visible part of the screem remained the same.
Screen centering is *not* the problem - I can adjust my monitor so
that there is a black frame an inch wide around the picture, and still only
see the left 35-50%.

My configuration:
- Hardware: 80486DX-2/66 Local Bus, with an ColorView ET4000/W32-based video
adapter, AOC CM-736 multisync monitor.
- Software: linux 0.99.pl9-1, X386 1.3

I bought my PC only four days ago and could exchange the graphics adapter
for a Spea V7 Mirage VL (S3 86C805) or a Hercules Dynamite VLB (ET 4000/W32),
so if anyone out there has successfully used them with X386 please let me
know.

Gerald.

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Replies by e-mail can either go to myself (aneu...@risc.uni-linz.ac.at) or
to Gerald (kl...@donau.boku.ac.at). I read comp.windows.x.i386unix regularly
and will forward any followups to Gerald.

Thanks,
Andreas.
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Andreas NEUBACHER, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler
University, 4040 Linz, Austria. aneu...@risc.uni-linz.ac.at !Packed signature!

Andreas Neubacher

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Oct 4, 1993, 5:49:25 AM10/4/93

In article <CE4ED...@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>, I (aneu...@risc.uni-linz.ac.at)
wrote:

> I'm posting this for a friend:
>
> BEGIN INCLUDED MESSAGE========================================================
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 14:20:42 +0100
> From: Gerald Klima <kl...@donau.boku.ac.at>
>
> While trying to run X386 under linux on my PC I encountered the following
> very disappointing problem:
>
> Let's assume the screen should look like this:
>
> ------------------------------------
> | |
> | |
> | --------- |
> | _| _ _ |_ |
> | |_| |_| |
> | | |_| | |
> | | _____ | |
> | --------- |
> | |
> ------------------------------------
>
> then the picture actually displayed on my monitor looks like this:
>
> ------------------------------------
> | |
> | |
> | ------------|
> | __| __ _|
> | |__| |
> | | |__| |
> | | _________|
> | ------------|
> | |
> ------------------------------------

[...]

> My configuration:
> - Hardware: 80486DX-2/66 Local Bus, with an ColorView ET4000/W32-based video
> adapter, AOC CM-736 multisync monitor.
> - Software: linux 0.99.pl9-1, X386 1.3

[...]
> Gerald.
>
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