Hi Steve,
The 330 came with ProPack 1.3-VW if you purchased a linux 330.
The XF86Config distributed together with this has the appropriate
modeline for 1600x1024 digital mode that has been tested and proven to
work with the 1600SW with the MultiLinkAdaptor on a 330 with VR3
graphics.
The specific stuff you need to do is simply to switch the screens
section in your XF86Config to change to the following in your screens
section:
monitor "SGI_17inch_1600SW_MultiLink"
modes "1600x1024"
and that should be it as documented in the top portion of the
XF86Config file itself.
you should contact support if you have any problems. this will help
them find out more about (and keep stats so that sgi figures out what
went wrong) what customers are having trouble with. keep CCing me on
any conversation, i'll make sure that SGI does things right for you.
Best regards,
jaya
>
> any ideas?
>
> -tduffy
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:44:41 -0600 (MDT)
> From: sparker@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: sparker@xxxxxxxxxxx, Thomas Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: sgilinux@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 1600SW
>
> > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 sparker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > I have a new 330 with a 1600SW and the multilink adapter. Has anybody
> > > successfully made that work with XFree86?
> > >
> > > Easy question:
> > > - I can get it to work with the "nv" driver and a regular monitor.
> > > However, I cannot get it to sync up with the 1600SW. Does anyone
> > > have a modeline?
> >
> > Have you tried the modelines listed on Xfree86.org for the flatpanel?
> >
>
> [snip]
> Yes. If I use these, I get "unsupported mode" from the multilink.
> If I use the ones in the XF86Config_sgivpro, the multilink doesn't
> complain, but I get blue and yellow fuzz. If you cross your eyes
> just right, you can see a glimmer of an xterm in there somewhere.
>
> The multilink is also supposedly able to lock onto VESA 1280x1024
> (and other) resolutions. However, I get the same result - blue/yellow
> fuzz. It works great in windows though (at 1280x1024 - haven't figured
> out 1600x1024 yet but that is a different story). Win must know
> something that I don't.
>
> > > Harder question:
> > > - The sgivpro and nvidia drivers both hang. The sgi one core dumps
> > > the x server at startup, and the nvidia driver hangs the whole
> > > machine.
> >
> > do you have the kernel module, sgivpro loaded at the time you start X?
> Yes. This is the message from X, just before it chokes:
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0x88000000,0x4000000)
>
> It loads sgivpro, mouse, vgahw, and then it recognizes quadro. Then
> it sets up the ramdac, loads cfb, mfb, xaa and ramdac. Then it prints
> out the above message and hangs the machine.
>
> As far as I can tell, the behavior is the same whether I load the
> module or not.
>
> Steve
>
>
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