Running 6.1 on a machine with a Cyrix MediaGX chip and 64megs RAM. Had an old monitor that X worked with. Got a new one:a Sony CPD-110EST. Ran Xconfigurator and it told me it had found settings for it, but the ones it suggested were 1280x1024x8bit. Although the monitor might cope, I'm told the MediaGX has a limit of 1024x768. Called in friendly neighbourhood hacker (every home should have one) to sort it out. I'm now using an XF86Config with this in it: # 1024x768 @ 76 Hz, 62.5 kHz hsync # Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1040 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 This is working fine. So far :)
Does this work in Red Hat Linux 6.2?
Xconfigurator doesn't have a way to specify minimum/maximum resolution (also a problem with LCD displays) - intend to fix this with a planned rewrite.
Oh - and of course, the workaround is to select the resoultion you know your computer can handle.
It does not work any better in 6.2. The workaround only works if you are prepared to edit the XF86Config file by hand. If I select combinations of resolutions and depths in Xconfigurator, it claims to accept them and then writes a non-working XF86Config.
Here is an update on the issue from Telsa, the reporter: Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:44:37 +0000 From: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit.org.uk> Subject: Cyrix MediaGX text-mode upgrade: step right up! ... It's not all doom and gloom: Xconfigurator --preferxf3 gets the Cyrix right. Woo-hoo! Thank you! (Please someone with privs, update #7551 so that everyone knows this is now working: unless you can see the other beta-team-only bug, you don't know that Xconfigurator was fixed for 7.0, and I keep meeting people with Cyrixes and no working X because they don't know there's a new Xconfigurator.) Telsa