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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:05:30 +0200
From:      Philipp <trashavenue@gmail.com>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black
Message-ID:  <20110714090530.3dda6ba5.trashavenue@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4e1e8ebf.62Yd3qvZ4PbEXkLO%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <20110713205716.ad2c747f.trashavenue@gmail.com> <4e1e8ebf.62Yd3qvZ4PbEXkLO%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:37:51 -0700
perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> It sure sounds as if the video signal coming out of the graphics
> card is beyond the monitor's range.
> 
> That's not supposed to happen with recent xorg, unless the monitor
> is misreporting its capabilities when the graphics card interrogates
> it or something (related to DOSBox?) is issuing an xrandr for an
> unsupported mode.
> 
> What kind of monitor?

It's an Acer S221HQLBD connected via DVI-D (Dual Link). My Xorg is version 1.7.7.

Maybe it's an issue with too small VRAM. I've limited VRAM in BIOS to 16 MB, because I've only 1 GB of RAM and the GMA 3000 doesn't own real VRAM. I'm going to proof it this afternoon.



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