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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