From: cornell@csl.dl.nec.com (Cornell Kinderknecht) Subject: x11v1.0 work with OAK chipset Super-VGA cards? Date: 22 Jun 1992 23:29:14 GMT
I've spent several days on this and have not come up with anything
beyond "no screens found".
My system: NEC Powermate 386/25
8Mb RAM
NEC MultiSync 2A monitor
some noname Super-VGA card using the Oak Technology chipset
(OTI BIOS 067 V1.03--256Kb)
Linux 0.96a
x11v1.0
gcc2.11c
Is the Oak Technology chip set even supported in x11v1.0? Everything
that I've tried has yielded a "no screens found" and then my screen
goes blank. I've set up my /dev/tty0 and /dev/console. DISPLAY=:0
is OK too. Is anyone successfully using a similar card/monitor?
I've used the "clock" and "timings" programs to get some numbers.
Can I really believe these numbers and just plug them into Xconfig
(there is no matching entry in vga.dbase that I can figure out for
my set up)? I don't really know how to determine what the correct
clock would be so I'm just plugging in numbers, trying it,
rebooting, plugging in numbers, trying it, rebooting,.... This is
OK for a while but I don't think I'm getting any closer since I
haven't even gotten anything as much as a flicker on my screen.
Since I don't think that the Oak chipset is related to ET3000 or
ET4000 the "timings" output doesn't really do me much good most
likely.
So, here are some more specific questions:
1) Can I use this card with the Oak chipset?
2) If the Oak chipset cards are not supported, what would be a good
card to use? Something affordable that would work with my NEC
MultiSync 2A would be preferred.
3) If the Oak chipset cards can be used, what would be some good
things to try in my MODEDB?
4) In the most recent FAQ, it says that "you *must* have
/lib/lib92.04.12". Is this true of x11v1.0? It was not in the
install instructions for x11v1.0. When I couldn't get things
working and I read the *must*, I went ahead and grabbed it and put
it on.
5) From the video tutorial, when calculating screen refresh rate,
how does 65Mhz/1176*743 equal 74.4 hz? Perhaps there's something
that I missed.
--- Cornell Kinderknecht
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