From: Johannes Zellner (johannes@zellner.org)
Date: Thu 23 Nov 2000 - 02:40:17 IST
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:19:52PM -0600, Claude LeFrancois (LMC) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try yo use svgalib-1.4.1 (from stock RedHat 6.2) on a Dell Latitude
> CPxJ laptop. The video card is an 8MB ATI Rage Mobility (ATI 3D Rage Pro
> chipset). The problem is: I can not get resolutions higher than 320x200.
> I can get this resolution for many depths to work (up to 16M) with this
> card but anything at higher resolution than that refuses to work unless
> 640x480 with low depths (4 colors). I always get a black screen with my
> monitor saying "out of range" but when I press "q", the "vgatest"
> program quit and the text mode comes back. I have tried to add my
> XF86Config modelines for higher resolutions (800x600, 1024x768,
> 1152x864) without success.
>
>
> Any ideas ? If you need more informations, feel free to contact me.
I've a Rage LT Pro on a laptop and got it not working with the RAGE
driver. Also Matan didn't manage. (Well, I guess it's partly due to
the problem, that we both have no time).
It seems that the driver has to be modified to get it working.
So: if you do the necessary modifications, please let me know :-)
There's another solution (which I shouldn't tell you, as I'd like
someone to write the driver):
Use the VESA driver and it will work. I got it here working with
1024x768. Drawback: you may have to compile svgalib yourself with
increased (don't know the name of the definition) definition in
somewhere src/driver.h: there's a definition to 5000 which you've
(was it MAX_REGS or something like that ?) to increase to at least
7000. Recompile, edit /etc/vga/libvga.conf to use the VESA driver
and you'll be happy.
--
Johannes
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