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- From: tranter@Software.Mitel.COM (Jeff Tranter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: X386 problem with TVGA8900
- Summary: not working in colour
- Message-ID: <13752@tranter>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:55:52 GMT
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
- Lines: 34
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- I am having a problem running X under Linux. It runs fine in
- monochrome, but when using the colour driver the display is incorrect.
- I get a stable image, and the colours are correct, but the display is
- "mangled" -- as if the wrong pixels are being turned on.
-
- I reported this before, and was told to upgrade to XFree86 version
- 1.1. That fixed the problem with restoration of text mode, but the
- display problem persists.
-
- The system is running XFree86 version 1.1 and the 0.98 pl5 Linux
- kernel. The hardware is a 40MHz 386DX with 4MB RAM, a Trident SVGA
- graphics card, and an AAMAZING SVGA monitor.
-
- The output from startx is as follows:
-
- Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
- XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- Trident chipset version: 0x13
- VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 512k numclocks: 8)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 45 36 57 65 50 40
-
- I am using the standard VESA timings in Xconfig.
- Presumably the hardware is good, since it works under MS-Windows
- in 256 colour 640x480 mode.
-
- Any idea what could be wrong?
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- Jeff Tranter internet: Jeff.Tranter@Software.Mitel.COM
- Mitel Corporation uunet: uunet!mitel!software!tranter
- Kanata, Ontario, CANADA tel: (613) 592-2122 X3099
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