Re: mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Guy Waugh wrote:

> Ryan Underwood wrote:
> > It's using 8-bit color depth, which will make things look pretty rotten.
> > In the "Screen" section, change the Depth and the DefaultDepth to 24 and
> > see if that meets more with your expectations.
> >
>
> Yeah, thanks Ryan, I discovered xvidtune yesterday, and quickly found
> that 24 bit looks a whole lot better than 8 bit ;-)
>
> I did get it going in 1280x1024 eventually - with Matrox G450s and
> G550s, if you use a DVI monitor, you have to use the mga_hal_drv.o X
> module, in addition to the standard mga_drv.o X driver. I downloaded the
> binary modules packages for mga 3.0 from the Matrox site and copied the
> mga_hal_drv.o file to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/, added 'Option
> "DigitalScreen" "yes"' to my XF86Config file and restarted X, and I'm
> now thinking I need glasses after a couple of days at 800x600 8-)
>
> -- Guy.
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