Jonathan Drews wrote: > On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:18, Ron Stodden wrote: > > >>The XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log are attached. Both look >>good to me, yet no X appears. > > > > > Ron: > > for some reason your video card is not being found.
Well, yes, I see that. It works under Windows and Mandrake 8.2. > This is from the > bottom of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log you attached: > > <SNIP> > > (II) Primary Device is: > (WW) TDFX: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) > found > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > The tdfx is the correct driver; see: > http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status2.html#2 3.3.6: Support (including acceleration) for Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 cards is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the tdfx driver. 4.2.1: Support for Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips is provided by the "glide" driver (this requires version 2.x of the Glide library, which is not part of the XFree86 distribution). Support (including acceleration) for Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4, and Voodoo5 is provided by the "tdfx" driver. Thanks, that's good, but I have now twigged another possibility for the problem - under investigation.... -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] New Web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
