I've replaced a client's video card -- his old Stealth 3d overlayed fine for video editing, but wouldn't play DVD's, under Windows -- so we swapped it for what was convenient at the time, a Savage/IX on a PCI card. (The first one we tried, an AGP, wouldn't even work reliably under Windoze.)
So now comes time to put a Real Operating System on the box, Suse 9.0 Pro, with XFree 4.3.0.1-pre, and I'm having insane amounts of trouble.
I let SaX configure the setup on install, and though it couldn't ID the monitor (a Sony CPD-300SFT), it seemed to go ok. But it was stuck in 640x480 mode.
A little hacking, and a chat with tim@probo, revealed that this was really a laptop chip, and apparently $TAIWANESE_CHEAPSKATES didn't strap the panel size jumper pins.
So I turned on Option CRTOnly.
That leaves me, now, with two situations.
If I also enable UseBIOS No, when I start X the monitor branches to Fishkill; the power-save modem comes on, and never goes away, even if I started with startx, and I Ctrl-Alt-Delete; I can't change VT's; I have to reboot.
If, on the other hand, I *don't* enable UseBIOS No, then I get extra chatter in my log file about modes, and a line saying which one it picked (which, after a little strategic configfile modeline commenting-out, is one that ought to fit on the monitor), and I get instead a blinking green-light on the monitor, which is Sony for "I can't scan that high", and I turn out to be in the first of three scan modes available; the third one is 640x480 and actually works.
But, since even the new, improved XFree logs don't really tell you enough about what they're *actually* providing, I'm not sure what the other modes are, in consequence of which, I can't tell why I can't get the 1024x768x16x85Hz that Windows has no problem providing.
Do I really have to buy a new card? Or is there something on the configuration or debugging messages front that I'm missing?
Heeelllpppppp!??!?!?!!! :-)
I know NIL about the savage driver but what happens if you strip out all those funky Modelines from your XF86Config and just set up the VertRefresh/HorizSync ranges in the Monitor section to match your monitor (unless the ones you have actually are correct)?
Thomas
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