Civileme wrote:
>
> I had a machine running 6.0 (Venus) successfully. After several moderate
> successes upgrading to 7.0 I tried this one.
>
> 1. The install procedure wrapped around itself in DiskDrake. I tried to do an
> upgrade and kept being told that /usr had 86 Mb too little. I then started
> again booting from CD and expanded the /usr partition since / was big enough
> tpo contain the /var partition following /usr. I deleted /var and resized /usr
> to contain the old /usr and /var, resigning myself to an install, but having
> most of what I wanted to keep in /home and /usr/local partitions anyway
>
> Now, after Diskdrake wrote to disk... A problem appeared. Itr said the
> partitions were overlapping. I looked and backed up and tried again... Same
> result--overlapping partitions. I rebooted and smacked into a wall trying to
> install because the partition table was corrupt. I booted a floppy and checked
> with fdisk, and they WERE. It wasn't a false read, it had been a bad write.
>
> Well I wanted to see if the program would fix it, so I deleted those
> partitions, and the offending overlapping ones, and repartitioned using
> DiskDrake. That worked, and the install proceeded.
>
> We got to video.... Oooops. Nothing would work. THis was working fine under
> XFree86-3.3.4.... A trident 3DImage975 AGP card with 4Mb. Finally, I selected
> "Quit" after trying everything from 1154 at 32bpp to 640 at 8bpp, and I told it
> to remember the 640x480 at 8bpp. I stupidly allowed it to set runlevel 5, but
> remembered in time to type "linux 3" at boot. After adding
>
> Option "noaccel"
>
> to /etc/X11/XF86Config with vi, I tried startx and had a screen.
> Unfortunatewly this one had a glide pad and it is annoying to have to hold
> alt, click the left mouse button, and use a "{free}" finger to slide the box
> around so you can click what you want.
>
> Anyway, I managed to get four resolutions working--all under no acceleration.
> 1154 at 32 bpp (roughly the size of a postcard on my NEC 3V 15" monitor),
> 640x480 at 24bpp, with Netscape in glorius monochrome, 640x480 at 32bpp and
> that was about 10% larger than a postcard under my best monitor adjustments.
>
> I cannot reinstall Xfree86-3.3.4 because something in initscripts needs a
> higher number. I will write a script to strip XFree86-3.3.6 and rpm in
> XFree86-3.3.5 and offer ti to all. It is true that under XFree86-3.3.5 every
> Trident Micro 3DImage (975 or 985) card I have tried has refused to work
> properly until I hand-added the "noaccel" option.
>
> I do note that the latest version of XF86Setup does allow the inclusion of
> lines in the XF86Config file from the setup routine. I like it, but it did no
> better than Xconfigurator.
>
> Civileme
I have exactly the same card and an LG Studioworks 56i monitor. I am
running LM 7.0. I used mc to edit XF86Config and use 1024x768 at 76Hz
and 16 bit colour. The "no accel" option is necessary. Works fine.
HTH.
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