Re: Need help configuring an Hitachi CRT display

A 13-03-2006 14:56, Chris escreveu:
Nuno J. Silva (aka NJSG) wrote:
A 08-03-2006 16:35, Chris escreveu:

I've tested the display with the laptop VGA port: it works like a charm.

So I think the problem is with the graphics card (S3 ViRGE). This may be also the cause of another problem: X11 boots slowly in my PII desktop (the screen stays black for more than one minute), than in my laptop (which is supposed to be slower than my PII desktop), which shows the X screen less than an half minute after starting xdm.


Sounds like a hardware problem. Can you replace the graphics card?

I have only one graphics card (all my other computers have on-board graphics card), but I'll ask some friends of mine if they can lend me a graphics card.

Or, have you tried re-seating the card, it may have come a little loose?

I'll try that, but I think it's rightly seated. I will also try to seat it in another slot, maybe that helps.



I've also looked at the rates used by the X-Windows in the laptop (my display has a function in the menu which shows the rates), and I tried to use these settings with my PII desktop X11 installation. But it did not worked (in the log, there was an error message simillar to "Screens found but none has an usable configuration").


Like I said, the laptop settings won't work on your desktop unless they use the same hardware, which is unlikely.


You were (and are) right :-)

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I'm using Gentoo Linux, and I think this is the most recent stable version. They're working on the new X11R7 ebuild, but (AFAIK) it is not ready yet.

Do you think that upgrading to X11R7 can solve the problem?


I doubt it as the graphics chip you're using is quite old now so any recent version of X should be stable.

Hum... maybe I should buy a better graphics card (AGP, with 3D support, ....)... What do you recommend?

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