Hi (again), On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:14:47 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) I can't view some things in full screen. For instance, I play the > game Blobwars and if I try to set it to use full screen mode, the game > shows in the middle of the screen, the same size as it was when it was > in a "window" before "full screen mode is selected". The rest of the > screen is black. Are you using an LCD monitor? It may be one of its internal settings. > 2) I want to get 3 D accelleration working. Before my screw up, I was > using ati-drivers and everything was fine. When xorg 7 came out, I > removed the previous instance of xorg and reinstalled, but I kept the > previous xorg.conf file. Maybe you need commercial drivers for that: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers But you already did install them: > However, now (because of *my* screwup), I had to install fresh. So I > got everything up and running and then tried to install ati-drivers. > the installation is successful. Then, I run 'aticonfig --initial > --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf', which uses the original xorg.conf file. > Again kde starts up, lets me log in, goes through it's routine of > initiallizing the peripherals and then, when the window that gives the > kde tip appears, it is garbled and my system freezes. That's the downside of closed source drivers. You might, however, be able to use the open source ones: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml There's also information at installing ati-drivers: you might have to change your kernel's configuration before installing it. The screen garbling is an indicator of major brokenness (the freeze alone could have other reasons, but this isn't going to be easy to fix). > These are the reasons that I think some setting is wrong. Before xorg > 7, when I ran xorg -configure, I got prompeted to enter my horizontal > and vertical sync and the resolutions I wanted to use and they were put > into the xorg.conf file. Now I get no prompt. They can be read via DDC. Xorg does this by default (e.g. no xorg.conf), and I think X -configure is just like that, with the exception that it outputs the detected configuration. > Also some setting has to be wrong somewhere because if I use I go into > Control panel under peripherals and display, I can't set anything - I > does detect my default resolution of 1280x1024, but the Refresh Rate > shows as -19557 Hz. don't know about this one. Maybe that control panel application needs xdpyinfo? That's a separate package now... But this is to KDE specific for me... > I've gone through all the replies in this thread, but no where is there > a one to one example of what I am seeing in xorg.conf. Hm? Other than that you have lots of commented out entries, it just looks like what probably anyone else has, too. > I've tried following the X Server Configuration HOW-TO, but no where in > that is there something that corresponds to this: > > SubSection "Display" > > Viewport 0 0 > > Depth 24 > > EndSubSection > > I understand what the 24 means, but what is Viewport? I tried setting > this to 1280 1024, which is my max monitor resolution, but it doesn't > have any affect. Yep, that has been explained now. In fact, you can omit the "Display" section. OTOH, you can use it to have the configuration setting "Modes", in which you can specify valid modes for that monitor. The viewport setting does play a role when using CTRL-ALT-<keypad +> and -<keypad -> or other means to change to different screen geometries. Note that the ati driver documentation mentions that the only reasonable depth setting is 24 (bit). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
