To: awilliam@whitmice.org klug@klug.armintl.com
Subject: Cirrus Logic Card HELP
I am attepmting to get X up and running on a Compaq Presario 433 which
XSuperprobe reports as:~
First video: Super-VGA~
Chipset: Cirrus CL-GD5402 (Port Probed)~
Memory: 512 Kbytes~
RAMDAC: AT&T 20C492 15/16/18-bit DAC with gamma correction~
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))~
I can run 800x600x256 under Win95, and that is what I need under Linux.~
When configured with Xconfigurator I get the following message after a startx:
(--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5420
(--) SVGA: videoram: 512k
(**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 34.167 MHz
(--) SVGA: There is no mode definition named "800x600"
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
If I configure it with with xf86config I get the following:~
(--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 48.00 kHz. Deleted.~
Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config:542~
ViewPort 0 0~
^^^^^^^^^~
Mode name expected~
Hence I just figure xf86setup is badly broken.~
I have looked at the Cirrus Logic notes for XFree users and found nothing
that seems to pertain to my problem. Also nosed around in UseNet to no
avail (so far). i did get Metro-X (this is Redhat 4.2) to start it up in
640x480 at 16 colors (useless).~
Urgently looking for hints,. I am not an XFree or Graphics Card GURU so
please explain in "laymans" terms (but give me a router and a couple of~
switches). I remember when I was a child my mother telling me "Cirrus~
Logic Bad", but in the fever of youth we get sometime forget those immortal~
truths.