Elonex Monitor: help with H- & V-Sync?

neocookie · 05-03-2004, 09:11 AM

Hi

I've got slackware on my box (server this time), and everything is set up lovely. My SCSI drives are working a charm, CDRW is happy, etc.

However, X won't play nice. It won't let me have a resolution larger than 800*600.

Now, I've set LILO to boot at 1024*768, which it does happily. I've gone through xf86config countless times, passing different information to it, and every time the same thing happen - xFce runs at 800*600, and way off to the right.

With some configs I can get it to sit correctly on the screen, but no matter what I do, X just won't do 1024.

On advice I found on this board to another question, I entered fbset from the CLI after boot, and it gave me the following information:

Code:

1024*768 - 76
D: 78.653 mHz
H: 59.949 kHz
V: 75.694 Hz

I'm not too sure what this means, but I'm guessing that the H and V are the sync rates. I've tried to enter these during xf86config, but I've had no luck.

Can anyone help?

Inhibit · 05-03-2004, 09:30 AM

Those are the current horizontal and verticle settings of the framebuffer. You'd most likely want to enter a range in XF86Config, whatever your monitor is made to handle (the users guide will state these settings).

Since Slack 9.1 comes with a fairly recent version of XF86, run

X -configure

and try the file it creates. It might take some tweaking for mouse support and the like. Usually, it gets the rest right though, or sets it to autodetect.

neocookie · 05-03-2004, 09:54 AM

Nope, didn't help. Still stuck at 800x600. Though it did find my ATI card, which was nice.

Still no 1024x768, however.

Any other ideas?

neocookie · 05-04-2004, 08:26 AM

Are there any software packages that might be able to search for monitor settings?

Can nobody help?