From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) Subject: An X386 question Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:06:32 GMT
After LILO, installing the X386 was the most time consuming task I had
with Linux, but at the end it was worth it! My problem was the lack of
enough information about my video setup, but that was pretty much solved
after I discovered that MS DOS utility on tsx-11, the clock.exe. Without
it, the thing was hopeless. Another crucial piece was the sc
spreadsheet with the two samples for multi-sync and fixed freq
monitors. Those were real time savers and at the same time they
presented the whole problem in a more understandable manner than some of
the longish documents.
So, once I had those two tools, calculating the proper video mode
figures for Xconfig was a piece of cake. ... and what a pleasant
surprise it was to see that X server come alive! Wow! Very impressive.
Not just the loks of it, but how fast that thing was! Those pop-ups
really popped up!
I do have one question though (as the Subject line suggested ;-). I
noticed that while my 640x480 resolution screen is nicely centered on
the screen (though the clock could be more circular!), the 800x600
screen is very much in a right-shifted position. To a lesser degree, so
is the 1024x768 screen, too. Since I calculated the Xconfig modes
figures right "by the book" and even tried to play with the
pre-sync and post-sync figures somewhat, I haven't had much luck to
bring that display to the center of the screen from that right side.
Can somebody give me a hint what I might still try to accomplish that?
It seems that the documents on this subject contradict each other on
which way the horizontal frame is being traced; whether it starts from
the left or right (when facing the screen), so I am not even sure which
side of the screen has the horizontal sync pulse. In case somebody
might want to be able to help me with this, here is the relavent line
from the Xconfig file:
"800x600" 50 800 832 1008 1040 600 609 619 667
As I mentioned, the window looks OK and proportionate, just shifted
entirely to the right edge of my screen.
Thanks,
Joe Pannon