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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Is there some way to create your own working modeline line for a monitor?
>
> I use xvidtune for generating modelines. It's gui'd, though there may be
> CLI versions--dunno. You just adjust settings (left right, up down,
> narrower wider) til it looks ok, then tell it to generate the modeline. I
> think you do this by clicking "show." If you've run it from a terminal,
> the modeline will show up in the terminal (stdout) and can be copied and
> pasted into XF86Config. It's certainly available for all versions of
> Slackware, though I'm not sure if it's a discrete package or part of some
> larger package.

Thanks.  I just got the s3v server working with a Compaq monitor, but the 
1280 setting is too high a horizontal sync for the monitor so I think I 
would need a different modeline added to XF86Config.  Xvesa works with 
1280 on that monitor and computer.  Unfortunately, svgalib, after 
displaying a file, crashes on exit and requires rebooting linux.  zgv and 
links2 both do this.  I will look at the config file for svgalib to see if 
it also has some adjustments to fix this problem.  This computer won't 
insmod loop or boot DOS-based BL3.

So now my partner has one computer where svgalib works fine but netpbm 
crashes with floating point exception, and the other where svgalib crashes 
but netpbm works.  I prefer zgv to xv for viewing photos.

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