Re: RH 7.3 Trident TGUI 9680 and X screen lockup

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:56:51 -0500
Kenn Goodson <kgoods prodigy net> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm getting somewhere now....
> Not only does Xconfigurator misconfigure for this board, I can
> configure XF86Config for a TGUI9680 but X detects it as a TGUI9660 and
> overrides my config file.
> 
> Lovely.  Is there a option to tell X to believe the config file and
> not probe for the card?
> 
> Kenn

You can run xf86config to set it up. It doesn't probe and it allows
(actually requires) you to have total control over everything. You can
even tell it you don't want any probing (if my memory is correct) when
running X. It took a couple of tries to get it right, but I didn't have
any more problems with it after that. Once it's set up, you can manually
run xvidtune to get some different settings if needed. They can be
manually input to the config file to replace those already there. I used
that option with one monitor I had back around 6.0 that has since been
replaced. I didn't need to change those things except when using that
one monitor.

I'd offer to send along my config but, I haven't had that board for
quite sometime now.

> ABrady wrote:
> 
> >
> >I use to use the same board and Xconfigurator _ALWAYS_ misconfigured
> >it. I always had to fix it manually by using 'Xconfigurator --expert'
> >or running xf86config (my personal preference) and entering the
> >values I knew it could handle.
> >
> >The problem it always gave me was that it would configure it as
> >TGUI9660, even when it said something different and even tested OK.
> >That gave me the exact same symptoms you describe.
> >
> >Should work. It always did for me at least, and YMMV.
> >

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