On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:17, Adam H. Done wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:45, P Oscar Boykin wrote: > > > If you can't see a tty, then you can't use X (from what I have seen). > > So the first problem is make sure you can see the tty. It may work > > using the video line suggested in the SUSE page above. > > Ok.. I got it to boot into linux just fine and it looks great using > suse's sugestion. Now the roadblock is starting X. I made the > changes... and still no go.. the display turns off and I have to > switch to another tty and back to the orrig tty and control-c and it > quits. The errors are included at the end...
Nothing serious AFAICS. We need to see the log. > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Rage 128 GL [RE]" > Driver "r128" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" ## Card #1 agp slot > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > # Option "dpms" This looks OK. > Videoram 16384 > Screen 0 > VendorName "ATI" These are superfluous. They shouldn't hurt, but... > # Option "backingstore" ## not to sure if this works > > EndSection > > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "ibmp260" > # HorizSync 31.5-107 > # VertRefresh 60-86 > ModelName "P202" > VendorName "IBM" > Option "DPMS" > EndSection It's possible that it uses the the default HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges and rejects the custom mode because it's outside? The log will tell. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
