Parhelia, Linux, & horizonta sync too low

Steven Whatley

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Feb 23, 2003, 7:47:53 PM2/23/03

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Hi all,

I am having a problem with the Parhelia v0.21 drivers under Red Hat Linux
8.0 (v2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel). I was able to install the drivers and X is
working OK. However, I am having problems with the virtual text consoles
(Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]). When I switch to a text console, the screen goes blank
and my monitor complains that 27MHz/62Hz is out of range. The minimum for
my monitor is 30MHz/50Hz. Any idea on how to bump up the hsync to be
above 30MHz?

Thanks,
Steven
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Athanasios Sidiropoylos

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Feb 23, 2003, 9:07:11 PM2/23/03

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Steven Whatley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problem with the Parhelia v0.21 drivers under Red Hat Linux
> 8.0 (v2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel). I was able to install the drivers and X is
> working OK. However, I am having problems with the virtual text consoles
> (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]). When I switch to a text console, the screen goes blank
> and my monitor complains that 27MHz/62Hz is out of range. The minimum for
> my monitor is 30MHz/50Hz. Any idea on how to bump up the hsync to be
> above 30MHz?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven

Well I 'm dealing with this problem with vga=normal at lilo.conf fo now.
8-) Until a better driver i out there 8-)

Sidiropoylos Athanasios
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Steven Whatley

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Feb 23, 2003, 9:46:09 PM2/23/03

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Athanasios Sidiropoylos <m...@kil.forthnet.gr> wrote:

> Steven Whatley wrote:
>> I am having a problem with the Parhelia v0.21 drivers under Red Hat Linux
>> 8.0 (v2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel). I was able to install the drivers and X is
>> working OK. However, I am having problems with the virtual text consoles
>> (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]). When I switch to a text console, the screen goes blank
>> and my monitor complains that 27MHz/62Hz is out of range. The minimum for
>> my monitor is 30MHz/50Hz. Any idea on how to bump up the hsync to be
>> above 30MHz?
>

> Well I 'm dealing with this problem with vga=normal at lilo.conf fo now.
> 8-) Until a better driver i out there 8-)

I asked this question in the Matrox Linux forum. I've got XFree86 to load
the mtx module and it works OK. Ben said that I need to get the kernel to
load the mtx module. I tried adding "video=mtx:vesa:7" to lilo.conf but
it doesn't seem to have an affect.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Steven Whatley

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Feb 23, 2003, 10:18:00 PM2/23/03

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Steven Whatley <swha...@hal-pc.org> wrote:
> Athanasios Sidiropoylos <m...@kil.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>> Steven Whatley wrote:
>>> I am having a problem with the Parhelia v0.21 drivers under Red Hat Linux
>>> 8.0 (v2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel). I was able to install the drivers and X is
>>> working OK. However, I am having problems with the virtual text consoles
>>> (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]). When I switch to a text console, the screen goes blank
>>> and my monitor complains that 27MHz/62Hz is out of range. The minimum for
>>> my monitor is 30MHz/50Hz. Any idea on how to bump up the hsync to be
>>> above 30MHz?
>>
>> Well I 'm dealing with this problem with vga=normal at lilo.conf fo now.
>> 8-) Until a better driver i out there 8-)
>
> I asked this question in the Matrox Linux forum. I've got XFree86 to load
> the mtx module and it works OK. Ben said that I need to get the kernel to
> load the mtx module. I tried adding "video=mtx:vesa:7" to lilo.conf but
> it doesn't seem to have an affect.

If I use the mtxdrivers XF86Config.single as my templete, I get the text
consoles with no problem. I have been using XF86Config.dual as my
templete so I can use both monitors. It is when doing dualhead that I
have the h-syunc too low problem for text consoles.

Later,