According to Paul Clyne: While burning my CPU.
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> >I never take the "piddle", i may critise sometimes but nothing of the sort in
> >this case, just my typo, "vage" instead of vauge.
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> Cool.
> >Futher more its not a path as such, but a mount-point which MUST be a
> >directory on "/" or another mounted drive.
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> Guess who comes from and extensitve Micor$oft world ?.
Oops is that not Micky$oft ??
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> >startx ?? If that does not work,
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> Nope. Keeps bombing out with the message "Fatal Server error : No valid
> modes found".
Ah!, a problem we all suffer from, i did many times. I am by "No means" an X
expert, to be honest i dont use X a lot, however i have suffered many a
time.
I think the best way i can explane it is to say;
You need to define a mode (resolution) which your monitor can handle, it
needs to be in the file XF86Config witch is normaly found in /etc/ or
/etc/X11
An example would be;
# 640x480 @ 60 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
# 800x600 @ 56 Hz, 35.15 kHz hsync
ModeLine "800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
You can define as many as you want, to use a "defined" mode you need an
entry in the "Screen Section" where your video card is defined under the
server which is used, ie, S3.
Its defined under "SubSection Display" as
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
So my relavant section looks like;
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "s3"
Monitor "nec"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Weight 565
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
Of course thats a "basic" example, it can be improved with a little
experimenting and thought.
After starting X (if successfull of course) you can change modes with a
combination of funtions keys, ctrl-alt (numeric pad)+ and -
The program SuperProbe might give some important details of what type of
card you have.
Now i hope this helps, of course others will be able to help you more.
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> I suspect it's something to do with the video chipset (don't happen to know
> off hand what chipset a HP omnibook uses do you ?) so I donwnloading neomagic
> as I speak and will be giving that a try..
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> I'm sure I can work through it... Boy am I learning heaps..
Then you have learnt one very important thing, Linux is not so hard to
learn.
"Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
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> Thanks
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Regards Richard.
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