Douglas Frank wrote:
(Oops, yep, I did mean runlevel 3.) That's what I've been doing for the
past hour. Good thing they pay me the big bucks, I'd hate for this to
be easy. ;-)
Upshot is this: Fedora probes my (on-board) video card and identifies it
as an "S3 ProSavage KN133." It is actually an "S3-VIA Twister K"
according to s3graphics.com. I've been running system-config-display
trying various settings. The only successful combination I've found so
far is "generic 800x600" w/ "generic VGA display" and 256 colors.
Still pretty much unusable :-]
Googling around for this box, I see I'm in plenty of company in not
being able to get X going on this laptop. The funny thing is, I had it
working with RH9. Unfortunately I didn't save off the old conf file.
:-(
I wonder if RH9 had a driver for the S3 Twister that has since been
dropped.
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm guessing there's a memory alignment problem. This laptop takes 16
MB off the top (I think) of main memory to use for video.
I've got it up at runlevel 4 now and am experimenting with xconfig
Boot into runlevel 3 and issue the command:
system-config-display --reconfig
This will allow you to set your monitor and display settings.
Please report your results back!
Thomas
Seems to me there is a real possibility that the X driver may be the
source of your difficulties. RH9 worked with XFree86 (don't know the
release) while FC3 is built using xorg-x11. The XFree86 project did
replace some drivers for ATI cards that prompted some display
difficulties on a RH8 system I had so it is plausible that display
driver changes could explain the unexpected difficulties you are coping
with.
