Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-13 Thread Massimo Alonzo
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Hidong Kim wrote: Did you install Red Hat 7.2 fresh on this machine? Yes! If so, XFree86 4 was installed, and the configuration file you're using is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You really don't need 32 bpp color depth. 24 bpp will give you 16 million colors which

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-13 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I don't have any experience with the G400. But I thought Matrox cards worked really well with Linux. We have several machines here with Millennium IIs and G200s, and they work great. In fact, I remember a few years ago when the G400 came out, I read an article on the Internet about how

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-13 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you install Red Hat 7.2 fresh on this machine? If so, XFree86 4 was installed, and the configuration file you're using is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You really don't need 32 bpp color depth. 24 bpp will give you 16 million colors which should be fine

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-13 Thread Hidong Kim
OK, Good to know. Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you install Red Hat 7.2 fresh on this machine? If so, XFree86 4 was installed, and the configuration file you're using is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You really don't need 32 bpp color depth.

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-13 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:03:06PM +0100, Massimo Alonzo wrote: What do you think about the Beta Drivers for Linux from Matrox, I mean do they works ( I cannot loose my data)? I tried them a few weeks ago. I did not notice any difference in the quality of picture. The strange thing was that

Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-12 Thread Massimo Alonzo
Hi, My Matrox G400 makes images in my monitor not stable (slightly flickering) and this happens only when I use Linux. I tryed to check its configuration using xvidtune and I found the same settings used by Windows :-( xvidtune Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1 hsync range 0: 30.00 - 70.00

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-12 Thread Hidong Kim
Have you checked the mode lines in your /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? In the Screen section (near the bottom), you should see stanzas like this: Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-12 Thread Massimo Alonzo
In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I found: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Matrox Millennium G400 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768

Re: Matrox G400 resolution problem

2002-01-12 Thread Hidong Kim
Did you install Red Hat 7.2 fresh on this machine? If so, XFree86 4 was installed, and the configuration file you're using is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You really don't need 32 bpp color depth. 24 bpp will give you 16 million colors which should be fine for most applications. The only thing I