SUMMARY: Matrox video in PWS 500au Tru64 V5.1a

From: Dana Huggard (dhuggard@shaw.ca)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 03:54:17 EDT


Thank you to; Dr Thomas Blinn, Marc Schlensog, Denise McCracken, Jon
Norstog and Kevin Dea for their helpful replies.

Note-worthy, Denise gave me this link;
http://moon.hanya-n.org/comp/alpha/hct/graphics.htm
Which I have bookmarked for future reference.

It looks like VGA (640x480;16 colors) is all I can get out of this card.

Cheers,
Dana_H

On June 3, 2003 01:29 pm, I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know the topic of Matrox video card was on this list once. I searched
> around a bit but didn't find it in the archive for some reason.
>
> Upon installing V5.1a I was pleased to see Xwindows startup, but the
> resolution is 640x480. I tried using '-screen0 1024x768' as an additional
> arg to X but it didn't change. I have some doubts on my syntax. Now I'm
> looking to the knowledge of this list for help. Thanks.
>
> # sizer -gt
> VGA



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