Re: EMC Video drivers - help please

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:

> awemawson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wallowing around trying to get the BDI set up for a higher
> > resolution than 640 x 480 - but currently it's winning !
> >
> > My system is a Compaq ENSFF PIII 800 Mhz, and being Small form

factor

> > everything is integrated. The video chip set is an Intel FW82815
> > (SL4DF = 'A2 stepping' whatever that means!)
> >
> > When I go through the BDI install and am presented with the

choice of

> > video cards the only ones I can find that work (using Test button)
> > are generic VGA and unsupported VGA both of which give me 'virtual
> > resolution set to 640 x 480).
> >
> > The onboard graphics is supposed to be AGP4X with 8 megs of ram so
> > seeing those fuzzy chunky icons is frustrating !
> >
> > Previously I loaded it on a clone 200 Mhz PII with a 1 meg Trident
> > card (8900) and had the same symptoms, and the same two drivers

were

> > the only ones that worked - I had hoped that the upgrade would

cure

> > that.
>
> Very strange! Trident cards are very sophisticated, and XFree86

generally

> knows how to talk to them just fine. But, it is not JUST video

cards, it

> also
> includes MONITORS in the calculation of what modes can, and cannot,

be

> used. So, you have to tell it that you have a monitor that is

capable of

> higher resolution (or horizontal sweep rates, particularly.)
>
> Jon

Jon,

I'm telling it Compaq V75 currently which will do lots of high res
modes.

(It will get something a little less modern when out in the shop, but
that what I'm using for testing)

XF86config is giving it as H = 31 to 62 Khz and V = 55 to 90 Hz

Andrew