Just a comment from someone who had to sweat a couple of weeks to get RH 9.0 to work with a flat panel driven with DVI (digitally)... I used the vesa driver in order to get some place and it worked (no accellerated obviously) but this allowed me to check that gnome and kde (I have installed both) were working and to play aroung with my configuration in a more pleasant environment than the console... In my case (I have a Matrox G550) I had to download the newest version of the driver and install it and everything was solved... as with you the option FlatPanel was amiably ignored what sent me investigating right and left until I realised I did not need it. For me that was the advantage of the vesa driver: showing what was needed and what was not needed... hope that help a bit Lionel
--- Elisabeth Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Craig Ringer and Jesse Hutton - while it does not solve > my problem yet, I made a little progress. > > No Jesse Hutton, Option "FlatPanel" "1" does not work. > I810(0): Option "FlatPanel" is not used > > -- > Back to problem. > The Flat Panel 1504FP is 1024x768 with Depth 8. Hsync 30-60, Vsync 56-75. > > In Boot session I see the following message: > > <quote> > BIOS data check suceesfull > You passed an undefined mode number > > Please press RETURN to see valid video modes, or SPACE or await 30 sec > (either make your choice between various sets 80rows x N lines; > or wait 30 sec) > </quote> > > -- > I have been playing with /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > Section "Monitor" and Section "Screen" for DefaultColorDepth (mine is 8). > > I get two situations: > 1. Half-success: > Graphic display, but with enooormous font size, actualy useless > (II) I810(0): monitor1: Using hsync range of 31.00-60.00 kHz > (II) I810(0): monitor1: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-75.00 Hz > (II) I810(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name) > (II) I810(0): Not using mode "800x600" (no mode of this name) > (II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (640 -> 1024). > (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 1024) > (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "640x480" > (II) I810(0): Attempting to use 73Hz refresh for mode "640x480" (41) > (--) I810(0): Display dimensions: (300, 220) mm > (--) I810(0): DPI set to (54, 55) > > 2. Disappointement: > The blue screen, where a small clock logo is "working" quite a long > while, screen changes into various coulours, at the end it became > blue, with a small white space, written in nice font (precisely what > I would like to get !) and a note "Impossible de lancer le programme > Impossible de creer le module d'entree/sortie: Too many open files". > I definitely hate to have my OS in anything else than ASCII, > they probably say "Impossible to launch(?) the program. Impossible > to create IO module: Too many open files" > Once this is closed (click click), I have full blue sceen, > my mouse is able to open half-broken menus of KDE environment. > But nothing can be done with it, except reading it. > > > My Conclusion: > I think I miss correct information for ModeLine for Section "Monitor" > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "monitor1" > VendorName "Plug'n Play" > # ModelName "Dell 1504FP Flat Panel 1024x768" > HorizSync 31-60 > VertRefresh 56-75 > > something similar to Sony Vaio: > # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? > # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync > ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync > -vsync > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > What I have in doc/log is: > # DELL 1504FP, 1024x768 @ 60 Hz > # Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 60 kHz, PixClock max 80 MHz > # Supported additional Video Mode: > # clock: 65.0 MHz Image Size: 304 x 228 mm > # h_active: 1024 h_sync: 1048 h_sync_end 1184 h_blank_end 1344 h_border: 0 > # v_active: 768 v_sync: 771 v_sync_end 777 v_blanking: 806 v_border: 0 > > I do not know enough about it, it seems that guessing below is NOK. > ModeLine "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 > > I also found quite interesting document explaining the chaos we have in > Flat Panels: > http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/topics/vectors_2003-cvt.htm > Dell Technology White Paper > Proposed Display Timing Standard Addresses Demands of Digital > Flat-Panel Displays > Download PDF (275KB) > January 2003 > Shuguang Wu and Mohammed Farhat, Graphics Engineers > Joe Goodart, Displays Engineer > > > Elisabeth Porteneuve > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
