Hansol Mazellan 15ax, can't get 1024x768 to work

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Hansol Mazellan 15ax, can't get 1024x768 to work

#1 Post by paulh177 »

I'm trying to resurrect an ex-98 desktop, with Hansol Mazellan 15ax video, 40gb hdd, AMD 2200+, 256MB ram

When I boot puppy (2.15ce from hd or cd, or 2.16exp1 from cd) then I get the xorg black screen if I accept the offered 1024x768x16.

I have to ctrl-alt-bs and rerun xorgwizard and set it as 800x600x16.

Using the lower res means that browsing is like looking thru a keyhole! (i.e. pages apear too large for the browser window)

A quick google of "Hansol Mazellan 15ax linux " threw up this link http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xfree/monitor/hansol/ but not much else (and I don;t know what to do with that info or even if it is remotely useful)

can anyone help?

thanks

paul
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#2 Post by Dougal »

A few days ago I posted (in the Dotpups part of the forum) an updated version of the xorgwizard that will (hopefully) solve your problem.
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#3 Post by paulh177 »

nope sorry :(

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#4 Post by Dougal »

I have another idea: please try running

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grep '#card0driver' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and also post here the output of the command "ddcprobe".
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#5 Post by paulh177 »

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	Driver      "via" #card0driver
	
vbe: VESA 3.0 detected.
oem: VIA CLE266
vendor: 
product:  
memory: 65536kb
mode: 640x400x256
mode: 640x480x256
mode: 800x600x16
mode: 800x600x256
mode: 1024x768x256
mode: 1280x1024x256
mode: 80x60 (text)
mode: 132x25 (text)
mode: 132x43 (text)
mode: 132x50 (text)
mode: 132x60 (text)
mode: 320x200x64k
mode: 320x200x16m
mode: 640x480x64k
mode: 640x480x16m
mode: 800x600x64k
mode: 800x600x16m
mode: 1024x768x64k
mode: 1024x768x16m
mode: 1280x1024x64k
mode: 1280x1024x16m
mode: 1600x1200x256
mode: 1600x1200x64k
edid: 
edid: 1 0
id: 05dd
eisa: HSL05dd
serial: 00000001
manufacture: 46 1997
input: composite sync, sync on green, analog signal.
screensize: 28 21
gamma: 3.050000
dpms: RGB, active off, suspend, standby
timing: 640x480@60 Hz (VGA)
timing: 640x480@72 Hz (VESA)
timing: 640x480@75 Hz (VESA)
timing: 800x600@60 Hz (VESA)
timing: 1024x768@87 Hz Interlaced (8514A)
timing: 1024x768@70 Hz (VESA)
timing: 1024x768@75 Hz (VESA)
dtiming: 720x400@70
dtiming: 640x480@75
dtiming: 800x600@85
dtiming: 1024x768@74

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#6 Post by paulh177 »

Just giving this a nudge in case it's slipped Dougal's mind (what with all that other stuff he's doing)

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#7 Post by bobn9lvu »

Try for now running in VESA mode.
In order for you to use xorg, you will have to edit manually the xorg.conf file,
and add a section with the correct modline settings that your link is showing to it....
It should run fine under the vesa driver...

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#8 Post by paulh177 »

thanks bob
Ok sure works fine under Xvesa.
can't work out the syntax of the xorg.conf tho' ... still i guess i'll suss it out in time

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#9 Post by Dougal »

Ok, I have a few suggestions. (BTW, it was a good idea to remind me... I myself don't know how many things I'm in the middle of at the moment.)

First, there's the slight chance of a problem with the "via" module. You could try the "tweak" option and select to use the "vesa" module instead.

That might also be done by just modifying the line in xorg.conf where the module is mentioned, then restarting X.

Which brings me to another, more basic idea: have you tried to run in 800x600, then manually change that value in xorg.conf to 1024x768 and restart X, see what happens?

In both cases it would be a good idea to look at /tmp/xerrs.log and see what you find in there (if X fails to run you should look at it from the commandline, as xerrs.log log will be overwritten the next time you start X.

Another thing is that after you run the xorgwizard, you'll find the file /tmp/xorg.conf.new, which is what the Xorg probing gave. Please look in it and see what the values of HorizSync and VertRefresh.
See if those values exist at all and if so, do they match the ones you find in the xorg.conf generated by the wizard...

One more useful thing would be the output of

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Xvesa -listmodes
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