on 4/14/01 9:06 PM, Peter Cordes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:18:36PM -0400, michael sean edwards wrote: >> I am having some trouble with X Windows and my video card. Its a standard >> ATI card that came with my 9500. Anyway what is the argument I need to tell >> the system what my resolution and bit depth is? Thanks to anyone who can >> help. >> >> I tried turning off the video driver in BootX but X windows died on me >> anyway. With the driver working I get a mangled screen and a hang. >> Sheesh, never the same thing twice. > > You shouldn't need to turn off the vid driver. (That sets video=ofonly, > which makes things totally unaccelerated :(. ). > > You can configure X by editting /etc/X11/XF86Config, or XF86Config-4, > depending on whether you're using X 4.0 or not. (If you're running potato, > you probably have 3.3.6, not 4.0.2). I've got a 9500-based SMP system with > a Mach64 video card. The machine locks if I use the ati driver in X. (I can > ping it for a while, but it locks up even more completely after that, IIRC.) > I'm using X 4.0. I can use the framebuffer X server, though. > To set the color depth, you use defaultdepth in XF86Config-4. You use > defaultcolordepth in XF86Config (for X < 4.). > > I used fbset to try video modes, and when I found ones that worked, I used > fbset -x to get X syntax for them. I don't know why it puts > "XFree86 doesn't support accel", but I think that's because the fb mode has > the "accel" flag set, and X can't use that. > > > If you're using X 3.3.6, then you'll have to adapt this config to yours. > My XF86Config-4 has (non-ATI-on-PMac-related sections removed): > snip
Thanks for all that info. It will take me a bit to digest it! In the meantime I could use a way to tell Linux not to start X Windows by default. Is there something I can put into the Kernel Argument pane in BootX that will accomplish this? Thanks
