Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-17 Thread Tom Zych
Simon Hepburn wrote: > The one thing that struck me as odd was that X is unable to > probe your monitor for any info. I'm surprised your monitor > does not support EDID, it's not very old is it ? I bought it in '96 but it seems to be from '95. References to EDID in the Usenet archives suggest th

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Zych wrote: > Oh, thanks! I didn't look at that, I assumed it would be the same > as startx's output but there's lots more. Like the other log, it > comes out the same whether the aspect ratio is right or wrong. > > http://pobox.com/~tz/XFree86.0.log.txt I can't see anything in there that w

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Zych
Simon Hepburn wrote: > If you could post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I'll > take another look. Oh, thanks! I didn't look at that, I assumed it would be the same as startx's output but there's lots more. Like the other log, it comes out the same whether the aspect ratio is right or w

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Zych wrote: > Thanks! I'm afraid the modules section change didn't help. > I don't quite trust 2.4 yet but it seems to be getting there. If you could post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I'll take another look. -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Zych
Simon Hepburn wrote: > You need to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel and enable the neccessary > agp and dri support. In the meantime change your modules > section to this: Thanks! I'm afraid the modules section change didn't help. I don't quite trust 2.4 yet but it seems to be getting there. Cheers, --

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-11 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Zych wrote: > Hi. I hope someone knows what's going on here, I'm stumped. You need to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel and enable the neccessary agp and dri support. In the meantime change your modules section to this: Section "Module" Load "ddc" # Load "GLcore" Load "dbe"

Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-11 Thread Tom Zych
Hi. I hope someone knows what's going on here, I'm stumped. My PC switches from text to graphics mode when I run startx or switch from a console to X. Most of the time this works fine, but sometimes the resulting graphics window is too tall, such that the top and bottom of the window are shifted