Re: ModeLines

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Hank Barta wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:24, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Monday 29 December 2003 05:18 pm, Hank Barta wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:13, Sean wrote:
> > > > Looking for ModeLines for Samsung SyncMaster 192N.
> > >
> > > Have you tried http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl ?
> > >
> > > But be aware that newer servers (at least 4.3.0 from my experience) will
> > > calculate their own mode lines and discard any that they don't think the
> > > hardware is capable of (even if you know better.)
> > >
> >
> > If that's the case, how do you over ride what X thinks?
> 
> I don't know. I cannot run my display at 1600x1200 at a flicker free
> refresh because X probes the dot clock at 170 MHz when in fact my card
> has a 220 MHz dot clock. (S3 968 on a Number 9 Motion 771.) With the
> older server (3.6.0) I could do this by specifying "DacSpeed 220" in the
> Devices section of the XF86Config and providing appropriate mode lines.
> That does not work for 4.3.0. Instead the newer server reports that the
> mode line conflicts with the dot clock. (Not the exact wording of the
> message in the log, but I think that's what it means.)
> 
> Sorry I could not provide more help.


The S3 server is still not fully up to speed with what was in the 3.3
series, I suspect.  There's been some work on it, but not much recent
contributions I've heard of.  It was one of the last to be (partially)
migrated to the 4.x architecture.  Contributions are always welcome. :)

-- 
Kevin
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