Fedora and SGI 1600SW Monitor
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Mon May 24 12:32:57 UTC 2004
Chadley Wilson wrote:
[snip]
>
> Howzit Marc , Alex
>
> I have mentioned it before and it could possibly apply here. I
> discovered that with my LCD displays we were getting "input not
> supported errors" the reason for this was the refresh rates were to high
> for these screens. I just experienced the same trouble on the 15"
> Proline Monitors and discovered it was the same.
> On the LCD the refresh detected (or didn't detect and set it default)
> the LCD @ 85Hz fortunately on the LCD you can still see, but the CRT yo
> can't, I simply set it down to 75Hz and it worked.
> I have had several problematic monitors with linux and this almost
> always fixes it.
>
Okay, 75Hz are too much for the SGI 1600sw. 60Hz is the way to go.
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor"
VendorName "SGI"
ModelName "sgi_flat"
HorizSync 31-64
VertRefresh 60-61
Modeline "1600x1024" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
1030 HSkew 7 +Hsync +Vsync
Modeline "1600x1024" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
1030 HSkew 5 +Hsync +Vsync
Modeline "1600x1024" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
1030 HSkew 1 +Hsync +Vsync
EndSection
This is what my Monitor section looks like. Again, what graphic card
dou you have? Is 1600x1024 supported?
Alex
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