Adam Luter wrote: > > Welp, I've spent the better part of 4 or 5 hours trying out various > modelines and reading about modelines, etc. > > And well, I can't get it to do any better than the defaults. Also, I > found my monitor manual (it is from 1997), and I can't find anything > in it except: > > Res H1/V1 H2/V2 > 1280x1024 91.1/85 64/60 > 1024x768 79/100 68.7/85 > 800x600 76/120 62.5/100 > etc.. > > The rest is about how I shouldn't put my monitor in extreme cold or > heat, etc., in about five or six different languages. > > No matter what I try, I seem to get staggering lines. So, I would > wager it's with the horizontal timings. I have no effect similar in > my text console, but I'm only running 80x50, at the moment. > > I still think the monitor has gotten old (that is, finally broke). > But that's just my opinion -- solidified only by that this all worked > with a Voodoo 3000 only a few weeks ago, but now it does not. > > Is the above information enough? The exact model is a CTX VL710. And > 1280x1024 (or 960) used to be very crisp and nice to work in. Now > it's a headache just for a few seconds. The widths and timings for the space either side of the horizontal and vertical sync pulses is required. You could try values based on other models. > Is there a better utility to try out different modes?? I had to > restart X for each change. I know I could have made about 10 or so > trails and done them all at once... but sill that's not as good as > something like xvidtune. But xvidtune only let me change some of the > settings (and they didn't seem to change the problem, much). > > I appreciate all you all's help so far, it has been very useful and > timely -- thanks. > > I guess I'll start shopping around for a replacement monitor. (I wish > I could afford a 17" LCD). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=CTX+VL710 http://www.baber.com/monitors/ctx_vl710.htm It's a plug-n-pray monitor, so i think X is meant to read the config from it, which you could probably find stored somewhere. It sounds like a fault if X can't set it up. _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
