[SunHELP] problems with Sun/Sony GDM-20E20

[Roman Neuhauser]

Hi there,

sorry to disturb you from your regular "my Sparc is more Ultra than
yours" schedule [:)], but I need help with a problem that seems to make
google go belly up, and sunhelp.org was one of the three hits...

(warning: this is all about peecee hardware)

I have a Sun/Sony GDM-20E20. It works just fine with my old ATi RagePro,
but I decided I wanted a dual head card, and so I bought a Matrox G450F.
To my big surprise, the picture is much worse than from the ATi card.

It looks like a screenshot in jpeg format. Dark text on bright
background (like the Mozilla tabs in the "modern" theme) looks it has
bright (almost white) "ghosts" underneath, shifted a pixel to the right.

I don't think it's a hardware defect: I pluged another monitor into the
box, and the picture was ok. Also, I used this monitor with a i810-based
box with no problems.

I'm pretty desperate now, because I bought the card mainly just to, you
know, please myself (I know that's not the idiom, but can't recall it
right now; English is not my native language), and now I can just shove
it up my ass.

Sooo... Do you have any idea what could be causing this problem, and/or
how I could get rid of it?

TIA && HAND.

roman at freepuppy ~ 1010:0 > uname -a
FreeBSD freepuppy.bellavista.cz 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 11 16:16:01 CEST 2002     roman at freepuppy.bellavista.cz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEPUPPY2_3  i386
roman at freepuppy ~ 1011:0 > XFree86 -version

XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
        If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
        newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
        reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.5 i386 [ELF] 
Module Loader present


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