From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: vgaset and trident card? Date: 7 May 1993 17:58:31 GMT
In article <May07.065841.62291@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> you write:
>Hello all. I've been told that vgaset works with tvga8900c chipsets. I've installed
>XFree86-1.2 and have had no luck getting 1024x768 and would really like to give vgaset
>a try, except all it does is core dumps. It is setuid root. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
Try recompiling it. You may be using a different version of the libraries
than what I used.
cd /usr/src/vgaset
make -k
Remember the version you have has only been tested on my computer. I
have recieved correspondance from many others who have successfully used
it, but there are also some known cases where it doesn't work. The orginal
version was designed just for XS3. While I have slightly generalized it,
it still won't work for all cases.
I'm not really sure if vgaset will do what you want. It only allows you
to reposition, resize, and change the resolution of a good display with the
same clock rate. If you want to go from something like 800x600, chances
are you'll need a different clock rate. In this case, you'll need to compute
a working mode before vgaset will do you any good.
Also I should comment, that while my attempt to contact the author of
vgaset failed, he has gotten in contact with me. Appearently there is
a second version now. Currently he is merging my saftey options in with
this new version. So expect to see it soon.
One other comment. Make sure you start vgaset from an xterm window. It
will coredump if you try to change things from console mode (in the best
case, in the worse it'll actually resize things...)
Bill