Hello Knowledgeable All, I have an Athlon 1.33 GHz system (ElitGroup K7S5A motherboard, 1024Mb RAM) with the Radeon VE 64 MB dual VGA + TV-out video card. I am running RedHat 7.1.
It did not work with the Radeon VE card "out of the box", so I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 and installed a binary distribution of the XFree86 v 4.1.0. Everything seems to work just fine (as far as the single-display mode is concerned), except for one thing. For some reason, the video comes out the *secondary* DAC of the video card onto the CRT #2. I would *really* like to use the *primary* DAC instead. Here's why: when the monitor is attached to the CRT #1 output (primary DAC) under the Windows, I get really nice and crisp picture up to 1152x854 at the refresh rate of 85 Hz. However, when the same monitor is attached to the CRT #2 output (secondary DAC), the picture gets somewhat "fuzzy" at the refresh rates above 60 Hz at *any* resolution (in both Window and Linux). I am not exactly sure why. I did find a block diagram for the Radeon VE series on the ATI page showing that both the CRT#2 and TV-out get their signals off of the secondary DAC. So I'm guessing that the secondary DAC is designed to give a signal better suited for the TV viewing, thus the lower quality of the picture. Anyhoo, is there a way to tell the xfree to use the primary CRT display output of the videocard? Thanks! Igor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's my XF86Config: ---------------------------- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "type1" Load "speedo" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "GSM" ModelName " Plus" HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 # 1152x864 @ 84 Hz, 76.0 kHz hsync Modeline "1152x864" 135.00 1152 1192 1320 1533 864 864 876 892 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" VendorName "ATI" Option "AGPMode" "1" BoardName "Radeon VE" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection EndSection _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert