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
