--- "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Michael Juntunen wrote: > > >Diamond Speedstar A50 w. 8 meg > > > >Since diamond no longer seems to be in business, > and I am having > >the problems that I am it would seem to be time to > get rid of > >this card. > > That's probably a good idea, as ancient hardware > generally is > much less supported and maintained than newer > hardware. > > The "Diamond Speedstar A50" according to Google, > uses an SiS6326 > chipset, which is supported by XFree86 4.3.0, and > presumeably > should work however. > > What version of XFree86 are you using? What problem > are you > experiencing exactly? > My monitor has two resolution 640x480 and 1024x768. No matter what I did I could not get the higher resolution to work. I did a google serch and tried every modeline that I could find for that monitor. tried the modeline generator at xfree and still nothing. I was having the same problem in windows until I was able to find the proper windows video driver at one of the driver sites. This is what leads me to believe that until I can get a proper linux driver this card is not going to kick over to the high resolution of my monitor (at least not in linux). I doubt I am going to get a proper working driver, so that leaves new card. obo, I did try the setting for the SiS chip in linux and that still didn't help. Also, in linux the view I get on the monitor is like looking through a window at a bigger picture. In other words the screen (and different windows) extend out past the edges of the monitor. I have tried one utility (i forget the name just now) that changed the parameters on the fly but it was only partially successful. Oh, and I am seing Mandrake 9.1. If I remember correctly that does have XFree86 4.3. Thank you for all your interest btw. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
