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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 |
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"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is |
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> doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer? |
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Yes. Under - Device Driver --> Graphics support --> Select VESA VGA graphics support |
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The further down in the Gfx support section --> Console Display Driver Support --> |
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<*> VGA text console |
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<*> Video mode selection support |
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<*> Framebuffer Console support |
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> I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone |
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> mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to |
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> microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it. |
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Yes, xvidtune. Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox and |
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follow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I recall |
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the path correctly). |
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Bob |
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