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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> The Modelines were copied over from a computer that was working 
> with a 1600 res monitor and xsvga driver with SiS and S3 Virge.  I 
> did not copy anything for 1600 or the higher hsyncs for other 
> modes.  I hope this will work on all monitors at their highest 
> resolution (up to 1280).  Start with the lowest hsync for each 
> resolution.  Mine worked with the first one that was not interlaced 
> but not with the next one up (black screen).  In theory using too 
> high hsync (or is it vsync?  I left that at the minimum) can damage 
> a monitor.

Modern monitors will not try to display modes which they cannot handle.
Older monitors can be fried.

> In theory, it should also work with any other computers to 
> eliminate the problems people are having with Xvesa and MS-DOS 6 or 
> 7 himem.sys or other things in config.sys (was it smartdrv that 
> also caused problems?).  There are no guarantees that you won't 
> damage your monitor, but if you want to take a chance try it with 
> the lowest setting for your highest resolution, and you should not 
> have to puzzle out xf86config to set things up.  Would someone else 
> please try it (on an older 1024 monitor) and report back?

I don't think mine qualifies as "older". 1998, and it is very tolerant
of strange video modes.

> I was able to switch between the three resolutions (starting with 
> 1024) with Ctrl-Alt-+ (?I think that was it) which gave me 
> magnified partial screens at 800 and 640.  How do I move around in 
> this sort of screen? I forget how to set this for a virtual screen 
> at 1600 or larger - someone please remind me and I can add that to 
> the config file too.

Look a few days back in this thread for my post on this. You can find
Steven's original message about this on Apr 14, 2003.

David
> Sindi
> 
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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