Re: XF86Config Errors

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I decided to switch from the S3 Savage Drivers to the VESA driver instead. IT FINALLY LOADS IN 1024x768. :)

Satish Balay wrote:

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








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