1. 7500 have given a few problems, you should use google on the list archives, it will uncover a few hints (I don't have a radeon my main interest being image processing I use Matrox for their 2D quality) 2. You don't mention which version of X you are using, If my memory does not play me tricks the radeons started behaving from 4.2.x onward I suspect strongly that your monitor has nothing to do with your problems (mine are as old and doing fine), theoretically you don't need to specify modelines anymore with X 4.x.x unless you have something exotic. Running a CRT with 59 Hz is going to wipe out your eyes... Lionel --- Adam Luter <luterac@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I -had- a Voodoo 3000 AGP card in my system, but this was taken away > through unrelated reasons. I temporarily, then, was using a 10 year > old Trident 1mb PCI card. So, of course, I stopped using X. Now my > new shiny ATI Radeon 7500 dual head (though I only have one) 64mb card > has arrived and I'm happy! > > Except (you knew that word was coming), my display looks awful! > > I should mention at this point that my monitor is a 17" CTX which, > while 5 years old, has held up well with only a slight shake using the > Voodoo 3000 card if the monitor heated up alot (regardless of video > mode). > > Well, when I say awful, I mean, if I use a modeline that is 60 or > above for the horizontal refresh rate. The display looks, as near as > I can describe, like every other line is at the wrong offset to each > other, staggered like bricks: > > --------- > --------- > --------- > --------- > --------- > > Which is very awful to try to use. If I tell X that my monitor is > only capable of a max of 59hz horizontally, then I get modes that work > fine -- but only modes up to 1024x768. I'd really like to be able to > use X at 1280x1024 or 1600x1200, like I used to (well, I used to just > use 1280, but 1600 was nice until you ran into a program that didn't > do the fonts correctly (i.e. ridiculously small)). > > I've tried varying the Vert as the documentation suggests, but this > did not help. Instead I had to adjust the Horizontal, as I mentioned > above. My monitors specs are (autodetected, but printed manual > confirmed): > > H Sync Range: 30-95 > V Sync Range: 50-160 > > Right now I have them at the "Default" (both are much lower), except I > have raised the H Sync upto 59 in order to have access to a useable > 1024x768 mode (otherwise the "Default" only gives you 640x480). > > So I guess I'm asking, has my monitor finally kicked the bucket? Are > there modelines I could use that aren't built-into 4.2? (I am only > using those, since I do not know where the others may be). If I > bought a new shiny monitor, would things work out? Will Martha tell > John about his baby? Is Carl really the father? These questions and > more, will be answered. Well maybe they will. Will you? > > Eccletically Yours, > Gryn (Adam Luter) > > p.s. Even with the 1024x768 mode (56hz) there is a -slight- > staggering, but in the higher modes it is so drastic it sometimes > appears to "shake". > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
