Is it the driver? or the video card?

Post #37,850 by inthane-chan 5/7/02 6:11:15 PM Reply	Is it the driver? or the video card? Card: Hercules Thriller 3D, with Rendition Verite v2200 chip. XFree86 4.10 Using driver: rendition Symptom: mouse renders properly, graphics are "stair-stepped" horizontally across the screen. This happens in 8 bit color as well as 24 bit color. Any ideas? "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #37,884 by pwhysall 5/8/02 2:31:47 AM Reply	It's supposed to be supported. Humour me. Try 16-bit colour. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #37,885 by pwhysall 5/8/02 2:37:07 AM Reply	Also, look at: [link\|http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/rendition.html\|http://www.xfree86....ndition.html] Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #37,893 by Another Scott 5/8/02 9:03:17 AM Reply	Try different resolution if possible. I too am a Linux newbie. My first install of Caldera on an Athlon system with a Matrox G450 with a 14" VGA monitor was very strange - it seemed. The wallpaper was very coarse and I couldn't see anything except it and the mouse pointer. Turned out the desktop was huge (1024x768 or something) but I was only seeing 640x480 as that's all the old tube could display. Once I reset the resolution, everything behaved as expected. Maybe something similar is happening in your case. Now how you do that, I haven't a clue at the moment. :-) Good luck. Cheers, Scott.
Post #37,921 by inthane-chan 5/8/02 11:50:35 AM Reply	Answering everything here. Monitor can DEFINITELY handle the resolution: 17" monitor, I was running 1024x768@60hz. I've run the monitor before @ 1152x864/75hz. The display definitely looks like a bit-shifting problem within either the card, or the driver. :P I've tried every color depth @ 640x480. Same diff. Looked over the rendition driver @ xfree86.org - same diff. By the way, the driver hasn't been updated since 3.frog-knows. I'm almost 100% certain the problem is the card now. :P "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #37,956 by scoenye 5/8/02 3:13:36 PM Reply	Monitor timing Maybe check groups.google to see if your exact monitor model needs non-standard timings. Most don't for the stock VGA resolutions, but there are some cheapie tubes out there that need a tweaked config file.
Post #38,053 by Steven A S 5/9/02 10:06:16 AM Reply	In addition... Linux is very flexible on how it sets both Horizontal and Verticle refresh rates. If you couldn't pick your monitor out of the list when you were setting it up, you need to verify what both ranges are for your monitor and load them (or more conservative rates if you can't get the exact settings) ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #38,070 by inthane-chan 5/9/02 10:50:27 AM Reply	Was most definitely the video card. How did I answer that? Plugged it into another machine, and booted Win2k in "safe" mode. Same stairstepping. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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