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- From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
- Subject: X11 and et4000 cfg.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.024229.8570@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:42:29 GMT
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- I bought a cheap et4000 card at a swap meet today ($90) and using the brute force
- ignoring homework method I configured it to display 1024x768 and a few other modes.
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- The clocks.exe utility reports 25 28 31 36 40 41 50 65 but I can only get usable modes
- from 28 36 and 65 dot clocks... I'm confused because I seem to be abble to call the
- 65 anything, I tried 66,67 and 68 for instance and my display remained the same.
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- The bios on this card is 9/90 and I'm using it with a Nanao flexscan 8060s. The manual
- for this reports that the horizontal scanning frequency is 15.70 to 35khz. and the
- vertical is 50 to 80 Hz. How do I use this info... the tutorials talk about needing
- a figure in Mhz?
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- My main problem seems to be the horizontal display size, it just shrinks too much.
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- It seems like 1024x768 is really just too tiny to be useful on a 14" monitor bur I can't
- get a decent 800x600ish configuration...can the horizontal size and slight, but annoying
- barrel shape be configured away with more work?
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- Should I have gotten a more recent et4000 card? A two year old bios seems a little old
- but I'm not really sure my monitor would support any faster clocks.
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- Uh, Oh I'm really rambling. One more: HOW do I make my windows a different clor other than
- black on eyeball searing glacial WHITE? I set up a .twmrc and changed every other color
- but default background and default foreground remain the same (black on white).
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- Thanks to all involved for this incredible tool. I took my very first COSC course this summer
- an upper level C programming course and though I'm a bio major I'm doing very well, due
- in large part to the exposure to a more advanced level of computing that LInux has
- made available to me. It's wonderful.
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- ..................
- Denise
- tree@midget.towson.edu
-