Re: tlug: Display resolutions

[Rob Bickel <rob@example.com>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Dennis McMurchy wrote:

>   Best wishes for 1998 to all TLUGers.
> 
>   On the last day of the old year my monitor died and I replaced it with
> the Eizo/Nanao 17" Flexscan E53F that I had been coveting for a long time.
> 
>   I have a Matrox Mystique 220 card driving it, and I'm using the latest
> XFree SVGA Server (3.3.1, I think)  and SuSe's latest refinement of the
> 3.3.1 SVGA Server (a separate installation). Both servers behave exactly
> the same.

...
 
>   I never expected this kind of problem and have no idea what is wrong.
> Is it the monitor?  The Matrox card?  Or is this a bug in the 'alpha-going-
> on-beta' Mystique support in XFree?  Any ideas or solutions would be much
> appreciated.

I also have a Mystique card, but I had no problem using it with the 
XFree SVGA driver.  I only had 2 MB of video ram on the card, so I
don't even think I could go to a depth of 16 at 1280x1064.  I think
I was using 8.  At the next lower resolution (I forget the numbers) but
what you are using, I could go to a depth of 16 and that is in fact
what I am using now.   So if you are having a problem with a depth
of 16 and resolution of 1280x1064 (and you only have 2 MB) I guess
you could count yourself lucky you can get it at all.  If you have
a problem at the next lower resolution, or at a resolution of 1280x1064
with a color depth of 8, then I would think there might be something
wrong with your adapter.  (Or I was lucky)  Anyway, just some numbers
for you to compare.  Good luck.

Rob


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