kms howto - is there one?

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 19 23:14:03 UTC 2010


On 2010/03/19 15:26 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> But the monitor definition in Mandriva is sufficient by providing HorizSync
>> and VertRefresh ranges exclusively (same as in F13 with mga). The only
>> modelines I've ever seen drakx11 insert are the same two old 768x576 at 79 &
>> 768x576 at 100 it did back when the whole distro fit on one CD.

> This is making my brain leak out of my ears, but if I have it right, the
> fundamental issue under all of this verbiage is that you find that on
> F13, just setting a correct horizsync is not enough to make all the
> modes that fit in that horizsync range available, you also have to
> provide modelines, right?

I thought that's what I was communicating well up thread using fewer words,
but yes, you do now seem to understand my complaint. :-)
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