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    SubjectRe: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. forXFree86 config
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    "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net> said:
    > kernel@mail.intercomp-sys.com wrote:

    [...]

    > > Most of the hardware that windows 98 can find in your PC and SUPPORTED in
    > > Linux can be found quite easily. Try the latest distributions (Redhat
    > > Loxar, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, SuSE 6.2 etc)

    > I pointed this out. Detecting the hardware all or most of the time isn't the
    > problem although sometimes detecting ram and clock settings seems
    > deficient.

    Finding the RAM amount depends on BIOS, some are very broken and just don't
    work, period.

    If you are talking RAM on the video card, that very much depends on the
    card. For many of them the information that tells you how to find that out
    just isn't available (together with the more complex stuff to really get
    the card to work).

    > > Also, Windows like to mess with IRQ's, DMA's and stuff that you'll no
    > > neccsary agree to the same settings on Linux...

    > The dot clocks, scan frequencies, and to a lesser extent the video mode
    > are what's needed. These are the parameters that really need to be tuned
    > manually often with XFree86 because you don't have the benefit of details
    > of the particular card you have.

    Those are parameters that depend on your _monitor_, not your video
    card. And try to set up Win98 with an unknown monitor (i.e., a not PnP
    one)...
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