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- From: jdp@polstra.uucp (John Polstra)
- Subject: Re: Getting 1152x900 with Orchid ProIIs
- Message-ID: <Bzs141.DA3@polstra.uucp>
- Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc., Seattle, WA
- References: <1992Dec23.233759.18811@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:38:25 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Dec23.233759.18811@husc3.harvard.edu> maziere1@husc11.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
- [Pardon my condensing...]
- > I'm using an Orchid Prodesigner IIs under Xfree86. I would like to be
- > able to do the following two things:
- >
- > 1. Get 1024x768 resolution at 70 Hz vertical refresh
- > 2. Get a non-interlaced 1152x900 resolution working.
- >
- > I tried the following timings:
- > "1024x768v" 80 1024 1032 1152 1384 768 784 787 823
- > "1152x900" 80 1152 1160 1376 1548 900 920 940 948
- >
- > Both modes produced snow on the screen in addition to the regular
- > picture, which looked fine otherwise.
-
- The snow mostly appears when the screen is changing (being written on),
- right? I reported this problem to the XFree86 people and we had a
- discussion about it, but neither they nor I came up with a solution. I
- did a lot of experiments and found that (on my system, at least) things
- are a bit more complicated than they seem at first.
-
- First of all, you *can* get 1024x768 at 70 Hz without snow. The key is
- that the X386 virtual window must be exactly 1024 pixels wide. If you
- have a line like "Virtual 1152 900" in your Xconfig file, get rid of
- it. Also, make sure that your "Modes" line includes *only* modes that
- are 1024 pixels wide. X386 seems to set its virtual window to the
- maximum of all the listed modes, regardless of which one is selected at
- the moment. So if you include, say, an 1152x900 mode in the "Modes"
- line, you'll get snow even when you're using the 1024x768 mode.
-
- The funny thing is, you'll get snow even if the width is *less* than
- 1024. Any virtual width except 1024 seems to give snow.
-
- So, for 1152x900, you're basically out of luck.
-
- Another thing I found: You can also get rid of the snow, even at
- widths other than 1024, by using the slower 65 MHz dot clock. But
- that's a pretty worthless solution, because the flicker is intolerable
- at that clock rate.
-
- If you try these things and find that your system behaves differently
- from what I've described, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
- --
- John Polstra polstra!jdp@uunet.uu.net
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