On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Brad Douglas wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew J. Sullivan [mailto:mattsullivan@mindspring.com]
> >
> > A very similar thing happens to me with 2.4.0-test1-ac19 I too have a rage
> > pro lt on a Compaq 1750. The interesting thing is that after I boot and
> the
>
> I tend to confuse the ATI product line because they named different chipsets
> with similar names.
>
> > screen is messed up if I do log in and do a fbset -g 1024 768 1024 768 4
>
> Mike, can you try this? If this works, it just means the boot mode is not
> supported. Hmm. 70Hz refresh. Good for Macs, bad for PCs.
>
> Geert, is there any possibility of changing line 39 of modedb.c from:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
> #define DEFAULT_MODEDB_INDEX 0
> #else
> #define DEFAULT_MODEDB_INDEX 1 /* 70Hz refresh not desired for PC
> monitors */
> #endif
>
> Many PC monitors do not do well out of the box at 70Hz.
Sure? 640x400 @70 Hz has the exact same timings as VGA text mode, which is
default on PC (except that VGA text is 720x400, with a pixclock of 28 MHz
instead of 25, but that doesn't matter here).
So I'd say no.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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