[ale] [Fwd: matrox millennium II video card problem]

[Dave Brooks]

Running 1280x1024 at anything higher than 8-bit (256 colors) color isn't
possible with a 4meg card. (Don't hold me to this -- that's just the
case judging from my old 4meg S3ViRGE).  If you are running at 8-bit,
just know that Enlightenment is rather colorful, thats probably why. 
Try using 1152x900x16 or 1024x768x16 (24?) and see if the problem
persists.  16-bit color+ should be sufficient for all your
color-handling needs.

Regards,
Dave
dbrooks at comstar.net

Scott Walden wrote:
> 
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> Subject: matrox millennium II video card problem
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:02:35 +0000
> From: Scott Walden <blmjdfp at snt.BellSouth.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu, pncrxrn at snt.BellSouth.com, walden_s at snt.BellSouth.com
> 
> I have a problem with my video card and hope that someone can help me.
> 
> I have a Matrox Millennium II video card and am currently running Red Hat 6.0,
> with Gnome and Enlightenment window manager.   My video card has 4 Meg
> of RAM and I am running the window manager at 1280x1024.   The problem
> that I am having is that I run out of colormaps with only a couple of windows
> open.
> 
> I ran SuperProbe and here is the results:
> 
> First video: Super-VGA
>  Chipset: Matrox Millennium II (PCI Probed)
>  RAMDAC:  TI ViewPoint3026 24-bit TrueColor DAC w/cursor,pixel-mux,clock
>    (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
> 
> It doesn't return anything about Memory.   Does this mean that it doesn't detect
> the memory of the video driver doesn't check for it?
> 
> I am using XF86_SVGA as the video driver.
> Below is the video section of my XF86Config file.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Scott
> 
> VIDEO SECTION of XF86Config file
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      Section "Device"
>     Identifier        "Generic VGA"
>     VendorName        "Unknown"
>     BoardName "Unknown"
>     Chipset   "generic"
> 
> #    VideoRam 256
> 
> #    Clocks   25.2 28.3
> 
> EndSection
> 
> # Device configured by Xconfigurator:
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "Millennium II"
>     VendorName  "Unknown"
>     BoardName   "Unknown"
>     VideoRam    4096
>     # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> EndSection
> 
> # **********************************************************************
> # Screen sections
> # **********************************************************************
> 
> # The Colour SVGA server
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver      "svga"
>     # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
>     #Device      "Generic VGA"
>     Device      "Millennium II"
>    Monitor     "Hitachi CM751"
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       8
>         # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
>         Modes       "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       16
>         Modes       "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       32
>         Modes       "1152x864"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> # The 16-color VGA server
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver      "vga16"
>     Device      "Generic VGA"
>     Monitor     "Hitachi CM751"
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> # The Mono server
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver      "vga2"
>     Device      "Generic VGA"
>     Monitor     "Hitachi CM751"
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64
> # I128, and S3V)
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver      "accel"
>     Device      "Millennium II"
>     Monitor     "Hitachi CM751"
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       8
>         Modes       "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       16
>         Modes       "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       32
>         Modes       "1152x864"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection

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