On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aaron Hughes wrote: > Austin Isler wrote: > > > I recently was given a computer to "mess" around with. I went to > > install Fedora Core 1 on it > > and I chose the GUI install option. My ViewSonic PF790 went into sleep > > mode and > > showed me nothing. So I decided to install in text mode, once I had > > Fedora installed I went to > > load up in runlevel 5 and again monitor went into sleep mode. So I > > rebooted in runlevel 3 and > > used lynx to google around. I found out that the video card in the box > > is a S3 Savage card, > > and there has been some issues with that and XFree86. I researched > > some more and found > > that if I changed my vsync and hsync in XF86Config, that my help. So I > > changed it to a setting they gave on the site and ran startx. X > > started but in 840x680, bleh. > > What I want is to get it loaded in 1024x768, but I dont know the > > correct vsync and hsync to do this. I have changed it several time > > from suggestions I saw on the net, but no go. Anyone have any idea > > what im doing wrong and can you please help me? > > > > Austin Isler > > > > > I had the same problem with my video card(nvidia tnt2) and monitor (some > old gateway crystalscan). The only thing that solved it for me was > installing redhat 9 and then updating to fedora core 1. Even when I > selected the correct video card and monitor settings I had problems when > I just installed Fedora core 1 but if I updated from redhat 9 which > properly detected all my settings it worked fine. Alternatively - install the latest updates (there are kernel/XFree86 updates) using either up2date or yum (make sure you use a mirror) - and try running redhat-config-xfree86 and see if this cofigures x correctly. Satish
