Re: [suse-sparc] install Suse 7.3 on SunBlade 100

From: Martin Herren (sputnik_at_on-the-web.ch)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 20:12:40 CEST

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:12:40 +0200
From: Martin Herren <sputnik@on-the-web.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install Suse 7.3 on SunBlade 100

    Alvaro Figueroa wrote:
    >
    > > > what kind of video problem ?
    > > > i couldn't get X to run on my Blade 100, seems to be a timing/sync
    > > > problem... the generated video signal seems to not exactly match the
    > > > configuration, so my cheap TFT can't sync...Solaris works fine on the
    > > > same box with the same screen...
    > >
    > > The display is like "scrambled". Lines and dots appear everywhere on the
    > > screen. This is because the core/memory? (I don't remember) of the integrated
    > > graphic card is clocked too high (120 Mhz instead of 100 Mhz) in kernels
    > > before 2.4.17. About your problem did you try with another monitor ?
    >
    > But this is just because X isn't getting properly configured, because I
    > am running X here at work (with the original 17' monitor), and at home
    > (with a Nec 21') on blades. (With the ATI card. But I've heard of people
    > also using the Expert 3D Lite card).

    for me it doesn't seem as a config problem... got a working XFConfig
    from a friend who has also a Blade with the original TFT monitor, for
    him it works... but my (cheap) TFT monitor doesn't sync (isn't true
    multisync)

    /Martin 

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