[ale] IBM 6091 Question

[Benjamin Dixon]

Hey Chris (and Ale'rs),

I finally got a chance to wrangle with this IBM 6091 you gave me but I'm
having some trouble getting a readable image on the screen. Wondering if
you might have some advice on it. My plan is to run it as a second monitor
using the Xinerama extensions. I've been doing this already with a 15"
monitor alongside my 17" so that part of the setup is good. I've run into
trouble figuring out what modelines to use with my ATI 3D Rage II. I've
tried everything I could find at:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonass/linux6091.html

But all I get is a scrolling screen of colored lines with black every
other line and no discernable image. I can tell the desktop is "there"
though because if I move windows around, the lines change color. So I'd
like to know what type of video card you were using with it. If I can get
a Matrox, I'll try that. I'm confident though that the card I have should
be compatible, I think I'm just doing something wrong. Any help would be
appreciated.

Below is my XF86Config-4 file (for XFree4.1.0):

# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Multihead"
        #Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen "Screen0"
        Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
        FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"             # Double-buffering
        Load  "GLcore"          # OpenGL support
        Load  "dri"             # Direct rendering infrastructure
        Load  "glx"             # OpenGL X protocol interface
        Load  "extmod"          # Misc. required extensions
        Load  "v4l"             # Video4Linux
        # Load  "pex5"          # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete)
        # Load  "record"        # X event recorder
        # Load  "xie"           # X Image Extension (obsolete)
        # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
        # Load  "freetype"       # TrueType font handler
        # Load  "type1"         # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

<Skip Input Devices...>

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "DELL M990"
        VendorName "Unknown"
        ModelName  "Unknown"
        HorizSync 30 - 96
        VertRefresh 50 - 160
        # HorizSync 70 - 70
        # VertRefresh 67 - 67
        Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "IBM6091"
        VendorName "IBM"
        ModelName "6091"
        UseModes "IBMmodes"
        HorizSync 63.36
        VertRefresh 60
EndSection

Section "Modes"
        Identifier "IBMmodes"
        Modeline "1280x1024" 111.518 1280 1306 1506 1760 1024 1027 1030
1056 -Hsync +Vsync
        Modeline "1152x864" 108 1152 1156 1300 1518 864 865 868 894 -Hsync
-Vsync
        Modeline "1024x1024" 89.2108 1024 1045 1205 1408 1024 1027 1030
1056 -Hsync +vsync
        Modeline "1408x1126" 135.00 1408 1460 1595 1916 1126 1130 1134
1163 -Hsync +Vsync
        Modeline "640x480" 55 640 664 728 848 480 481 482 500 -Hsync
+Vsync DoubleScan
        Modeline "1024x768" 80.00 1024 1027 1069 1304 768 772 777 805
-Hsync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Intel 810"
        Driver "i810"
        BoardName "Unknown"
        VideoRam 16384
        BusID   "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Ati"
        Driver "ati"
        BoardName "Unknown"
        BusID   "PCI:1:8:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
        Driver "fbdev"
        BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Intel 810"
        Monitor "DELL M990"
        #Monitor "IBM6091"
        DefaultDepth 16
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 32
                Modes "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 16
                Modes "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 8
                Modes "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device "Ati"
        Monitor "IBM6091"
        DefaultDepth 16
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1280x1024" "1024x1024" "1152x890" "1152x864"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 16
                Modes "1280x1024" "1024x1024" "1152x890" "1152x864"
"1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 8
                Modes "1280x1024" "1024x1024" "1152x890" "1152x864"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection
#EOF

Thanks,

Ben


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