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

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Dave Brooks wrote:
> 
> 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.

As in my previous post, I am running 1280x1024/16 bpp with a 4 meg card,
although I just upgraded to 8 meg.

> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> dbrooks at comstar.net
> 
> Scott Walden wrote:
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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
> 
> --
> David A. Brooks
> ComStar Communications, Inc.
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