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Karl Hergenrother wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: KH> I know 5.1 is current, but 5.0 is what I have. KH> I have a 17" KDS 4600 multiscan monitor with horizontal scan KH> frequencies 30 to 82 kHz and 50 to 120 Hz vertical. The KH> video card is a Tseng Labs ET4000 with 1 MB video memory. I KH> tried several different settings with the same results. KH> Right now I believe I have selected ET4000 video card and KH> custom settings for the monitor. I have no information on KH> the clock chip. Your first problem is that there are two completely different chipsets known as the "ET4000." I don't know why Tseng Labs did this, but I have personally run across both kinds and I can assure you that they are totally different. This seems to be a common idiosyncracy of video hardware makers, since the OEM versions of the Matrox cards are often significantly reduced in functionality from the retail versions. For example, the OEM Matrox "Millennium" you get with a Gateway computer is not the same thing as a Matrox "Millennium" you would get if you bought the card alone in a retail box. In any case, it is usually the cheaper ET4000 that you see used in connection with only 1 MB video memory. This is sometimes called the "ET4000/AX," although I don't know what the "AX" suffix means, if anything. The proper XFree86 driver for this chipset is the standard SVGA driver, which works well. Only the more expensive ET4000 chipset should use the W32 driver. KH> What is Superprobe? I am kind of new at this. It is a utility which you should get with your XFree86 distribution that attempts to determine what hardware you have and what drivers should be used. It is pretty good, but it makes mistakes occasionally, and these are usually already documented as concerns. Most distributions -- I'm not that familiar with Red Hat -- will run this utility automatically, although it can also be run manually. -- Mike *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org
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