[arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480

[Thomas Bächler]

prad schrieb:
> this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card -
> working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set 
> horizsync 30-35
> vertrefresh 50-100
> (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen
> locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync.

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Without that, nobody can help.

> everything installed fine, but even with the following in xorg.conf:
> 
> driver set to ati
> defaultdepth to 16
> modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> 
> it comes up as 640x480
> 
> also, i need to 
> exec xterm&
> 
> before going into lxde or the cursor doesn't show up.
> 
> i've already pacmaned
> xf86-video-r128 (rage driver)
> xf86-video-ati (ati driver)

I think some 3D rage cards are not r128, but mach64, so you need to 
install that too - details will also be visible in the xorg logfile.

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