I'm installing 10.1. I ran xorg-conf to set up my monitor/video card.
The card is a Trident 9660. The chip is Providia. I tried both.

In 640x480 everything looks OK - but very large. In higher resolution
horizontal lines (tearing?) appear in large numbers. I started
xvidtune, but even after reading the man page I wasn't sure what
parameters to modify.

There used to be a database of modelines but I can't find one.
Apparently most of the drivers no don't need them.

BTW, the monitor/card work fine under W98 at 1024x768 and IIRC, I even
had it running at 1280 x 1024 at one time.

Any suggestions?

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lgb wrote:

> I'm installing 10.1. I ran xorg-conf to set up my monitor/video card.
> The card is a Trident 9660. The chip is Providia. I tried both.
>
> In 640x480 everything looks OK - but very large. In higher resolution
> horizontal lines (tearing?) appear in large numbers. I started
> xvidtune, but even after reading the man page I wasn't sure what
> parameters to modify.
>
> There used to be a database of modelines but I can't find one.
> Apparently most of the drivers no don't need them.
>
> BTW, the monitor/card work fine under W98 at 1024x768 and IIRC, I even
> had it running at 1280 x 1024 at one time.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
I would download and burn (or buy if you have to) a current Slax disk. See
if that works OK. Then while it is running as you want it to then crib from
its Xorg-conf file found in /etc/X11.

Vidtune is sort of a last-resort thing. You can damage hardware if you are
not careful.

HTH
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

lgb wrote:

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>
> There used to be a database of modelines but I can't find one.

Check here :
http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines


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