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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!danubius
- From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
- Subject: An X386 question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.090632.6202@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:06:32 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- After LILO, installing the X386 was the most time consuming task I had
- with Linux, but at the end it was worth it! My problem was the lack of
- enough information about my video setup, but that was pretty much solved
- after I discovered that MS DOS utility on tsx-11, the clock.exe. Without
- it, the thing was hopeless. Another crucial piece was the sc
- spreadsheet with the two samples for multi-sync and fixed freq
- monitors. Those were real time savers and at the same time they
- presented the whole problem in a more understandable manner than some of
- the longish documents.
-
- So, once I had those two tools, calculating the proper video mode
- figures for Xconfig was a piece of cake. ... and what a pleasant
- surprise it was to see that X server come alive! Wow! Very impressive.
- Not just the loks of it, but how fast that thing was! Those pop-ups
- really popped up!
-
- I do have one question though (as the Subject line suggested ;-). I
- noticed that while my 640x480 resolution screen is nicely centered on
- the screen (though the clock could be more circular!), the 800x600
- screen is very much in a right-shifted position. To a lesser degree, so
- is the 1024x768 screen, too. Since I calculated the Xconfig modes
- figures right "by the book" and even tried to play with the
- pre-sync and post-sync figures somewhat, I haven't had much luck to
- bring that display to the center of the screen from that right side.
- Can somebody give me a hint what I might still try to accomplish that?
- It seems that the documents on this subject contradict each other on
- which way the horizontal frame is being traced; whether it starts from
- the left or right (when facing the screen), so I am not even sure which
- side of the screen has the horizontal sync pulse. In case somebody
- might want to be able to help me with this, here is the relavent line
- from the Xconfig file:
-
- "800x600" 50 800 832 1008 1040 600 609 619 667
-
- As I mentioned, the window looks OK and proportionate, just shifted
- entirely to the right edge of my screen.
-
- Thanks,
- Joe Pannon
-