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- From: dkyoon@alnitak.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: My Diamond Stealth VRAM, now works in 1024x768 with the new X386.s3.
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:35:43 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Lines: 67
- Message-ID: <1ehitvINNbpn@alnitak.usc.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu
- Keywords: Stealth VRAM, S3
-
- First of all, here is my hardware configuration:
-
- home-assembled 386-40 w/8M and Cyrix 83D87-40
- Diamond Stealth VRAM 1M graphics accellerator
- Viewsonic 5+ Multiscan monitor
- Microsoft compatible mouse.
-
- I recently installed the new X386.S3 (X386.S3-0.2a.Z) from
- ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk, and finally got it work well with my card and monitor
- in 1024x768 mode.
-
- Here are the steps I followed to make it work (I found this procedure just
- by accident !! But this might work for others who have trouble with clock
- settings.)
-
- - Boot DOS and run Windows 3.1 in 1024x768x256 mode.
- My smode setting is NEC 4FG (70Hz V-scanrate at 1024x768).
-
- - Warm-start the PC (CTRL-ALT-DEL) with your Linux boot diskette
- in the driver.
-
- - Login and Run startx.
-
- Of course, the above steps are somewhat irritating but should be better
- than getting nothing.
-
- Note that with X386.S3, only misc/* and 75dpi/* worked for me.
- So you might have to remove other font directories from your Xconfig file.
- And of course, you might have to adjust various timings for your monitor
- to properly locate the viewing area. (I think you can just try the default
- timings in the beginning).
-
- Anyway, I attached the video part of my Xconfig file at the end of this
- article. Hope this saves someone who wanted to sell his Stealth card
- simply because Linux X doesn't support it. (I myself was almost going to
- sell my card and get a new card which is *well* supported by Linux)
-
- Best regards,
- DK
-
- ===================== My Xconfig file ==================================
-
- # ......
- # ......
- vga256
- # Virtual 1024 768
- Clocks 25 50 80
-
- # To disable SpeedUp, use NoSpeedUp
- #
- # NoSpeedUp
-
- ViewPort 0 0
-
- Videoram 1024
- Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
- ModeDB
- # name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
- "640x480" 25 640 662 760 800 480 491 493 525
- "800x600" 50 800 856 976 1040 600 601 603 625
- "1024x768" 80 1024 1080 1300 1320 768 784 787 823
-
-
-
- --
- Dae-kyun Yoon
- dkyoon@usc.edu, ..!uunet!usc!dkyoon
-