On Sat, 29 May 2010, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> I'm on my third video card. >>> The first was a radeon. >>> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with >>> an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it. >>> Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one, >>> I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650. >>> It was the AGP card I could find. >>> Knoppix 5.1.0 runs just fine. >> >> I tried Xorg -probe >> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new >> just produced a messy screen. No discernable image. >> Here is /root/xorg.conf.new : > Not sure exactly where you are going with all of this but you should at > least start with the default which is no xorg.conf at all - so maybe as That was one of the first things I tried, but I'll try it again. > root, you should just 'mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-saved' > and then reboot and see what happens because I would guess that the > knoppix org.conf you are trying to use is from a much earlier version of > xorg. I never copied and xorg.conf from knoppix. That I could use knoppix demonstrated that the hardware worked. The quoted xorg.conf.new was from Xorg -probe . -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
