Re: XFree86 configuration problem
Quinn Harris <[email protected]>
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It sounds like your video timeings are to high for the one monitor but
not for the other two.
I think the Bridge BM-15V monitor has a horizonatal frequency of
30-70kHz and vertical of 50-160Hz (Google search).
You need to tell X this so it won't exceed the specs of the BM-15V
Change your XF86Config monitor section to look like this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Bridge"
ModelName "BM-15V"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
This should hopefully fix the problem. If it doesn't try to reduce the
resolution from "1280x1024" to something like "1024x768" or "800x600".
I think the BM-15V will run at 60Hz at 1280x1024. I personally can't
tolerate 60Hz.
On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 01:11, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm having some serious problems in configuring X for my display card and
> monitor. When I start X, instead of showing the normal X screen, the monitor
> shuts down.
> I've tested two other monitors and they work just fine with the same X
> configuration. Also, the unworking monitor works just fine on another
> computer that also has XFree86 4.2.0 in it.
>
> My display card is Diamond Viper 330 with nVidia Riva 128 chip on it. The
> monitor is Bridge BM-15V.
> The two other monitors that I've tested are ICL 172v and Samsung SyncMaster
> 750s. The other computer (in which the Bridge monitor worked just fine) is
> running RedHat 7.3 and has a Diamond Viper II display card (with S3 Savage
> 2000 chip)
>
> This is the X configuration file from the Gentoo box. Two other monitors
> worked just fine with this, but the Bridge BM-15V just shut itself down.
>
> >> Section "ServerLayout"
> >> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Files"
> >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Module"
> >> Load "extmod"
> >> Load "xie"
> >> Load "pex5"
> >> Load "dri"
> >> Load "dbe"
> >> Load "record"
> >> Load "xtrap"
> >> Load "glx"
> >> Load "speedo"
> >> Load "type1"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> >> Driver "keyboard"
> >> Option "XKbLayout" "fi"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Mouse0"
> >> Driver "mouse"
> >> Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
> >> Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >> Identifier "Monitor0"
> >> VendorName "Bridge"
> >> ModelName "BM-15V"
> >> Option "DPMS"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Device"
> >> Identifier "Card0"
> >> Driver "nv"
> >> VendorName "NVidia/SGS-Thomson"
> >> BoardName "Riva128"
> >> BusID "PCI:0:17:0"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Screen"
> >> Identifier "Screen0"
> >> Device "Card0"
> >> Monitor "Monitor0"
> >> DefaultDepth 15
> >> SubSection "Display"
> >> Depth 15
> >> Modes "1024x768"
> >> EndSubSection
> >> EndSection
>
> Here's the X configuration file from the RedHat 7.3 box. The Bridge BM-15V
> worked just fine with these settings.
>
> >> Section "ServerLayout"
> >> Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
> >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Files"
> >> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >> FontPath "unix/:7100"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Module"
> >> Load "GLcore"
> >> Load "dbe"
> >> Load "extmod"
> >> Load "fbdevhw"
> >> Load "dri"
> >> Load "glx"
> >> Load "record"
> >> Load "freetype"
> >> Load "type1"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> >> Driver "keyboard"
> >> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> >> Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
> >> Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
> >> Option "XkbVariant" "basic"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Mouse0"
> >> Driver "mouse"
> >> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >> Identifier "Monitor0"
> >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> >> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> >> HorizSync 30.0-64.0
> >> VertRefresh 50.0-100.0
> >> Option "dpms"
> >>
> >> Modeline "1400x1050" 129 1400 1464 1656 1960
> >> 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync
> >> Modeline "1400x1050" 151 1400 1464 1656 1960
> >> 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync
> >> Modeline "1400x1050" 162 1400 1464 1656 1960
> >> 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync
> >> Modeline "1400x1050" 184 1400 1464 1656 1960
> >> 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Device"
> >> Identifier "S3 Savage 2000 (generic)"
> >> Driver "savage"
> >> VendorName "S3 Savage 2000 (generic)"
> >> BoardName "S3 Savage 2000 (generic)"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "Screen"
> >> Identifier "Screen0"
> >> Device "S3 Savage 2000 (generic)"
> >> Monitor "Monitor0"
> >> DefaultDepth 24
> >> Subsection "Display"
> >> Depth 24
> >> Modes "1280x1024"
> >> EndSubsection
> >>
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Section "DRI"
> >> Mode 0666
> >> EndSection
>
> I've tried using the latter file with Gentoo (just changed the Device
> section to correspond with the Diamond Viper 330), but the result is the
> same. The two other monitors work, while the Bridge BM-15V just shuts down.
> Also, the combination of Viper 330 and BM-15V has worked on an older Linux
> distro. The only problem is that I have absolutely no idea what the X
> configuration file looked like back then.
>
> BTW, I noticed an ebuild named x11-misc/Xautoconfig, but when I tried to
> merge it, portage claimed that all packages that could satisfy it were
> masked. How could I install this program, and would it do me any good?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Jani-Matti Hätinen
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