You probably have a virtual resolution which is bigger than the one used by X this can happen because either - a virtual resolution is specified in XF86Config - you have two or more resolutions in your mode (display subsection of the screen section) * more likely* In this case the virtual resolution is the biggest specified resolution and the real resolution is whatever X manages to get leading exactly to what you describe. To top it all you usally don't get a slider allowing you to get to those part of the screen which are not displayed... If you really want help you should post both your XF86Config (resp. XF86Config-4 if your distro uses that for X 4.x.x) and log(usually /var/log/XFree86.0.log) Lionel --- Michael Juntunen <juntunen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- "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 __________________________________ 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
