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> Okay, you may have to adjust this some. I don't have an official RedHat
> CD, but I have a Cheap Bytes $2 CD of RedHat 5.0 that I use for
> reference.
>
Regarding that RH 5.0 could you please check if it could run on a
machine that is not Pentium (i.e.. 386 or 486 or so). Just interested
for the other reasons.
> Cute. The program is named XF86_VGA16, but the rpm is named
> XFree86-VGA16. If you have room, you might try the SVGA server too.
>
> rpm -i XFree86-SVGA
>
While doing that it looked to me that I didn't have both of the servers
installed before. Maybe it is a bug within RH 6.1 where if it has
difficulties to detect a graphic card it likes, during the setup, maybe
it aborts installing video servers?
> xinit -- /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VGA16 &>vga16
the answer was: bash:vga16: Read-only file system
> xinit -- /usr/X11/bin/XF86_SVGA &>svga
>
the answer was: bash: svga: Read-only file system
> now, you should have in files vga16 and svga a record of what those
> servers thought of your video card. The SVGA server thinks my S3 864
> card is only good for 320x200, but VGA16 is happy to run it at
> 640x480. I think I could get 800x600 if I work on the XF86Config a bit,
> but the S3 server will run it at 1024x768 as is, so I don't bother.
>
Well, after installing the servers, I did Xconfigurator and I tried
several options (vga16 or svga, autoprobe or not, a custom monitor or
existing one etc.). Finally I got X working, but it is still
interesting:
If I ask 'startx' from the console - I get Gnome GUI in 800x600
resolution with acceptable colors (not sure about but Xconfigurator
suggested it was 8-bit colors. Btw, is it 256 or more colors in this
case?)
But, if I use linuxconf and make the default boot mode to be 'graphic &
network', next time I re-boot the system the GUI goes to lower
resolution, maybe 640x? and colors are much worse than previous case. Of
course, I can't be satisfied with that, so I return to 'text & network'
boot mode, so with 'startx' GUI is ok again. What might be the problem
here?
FYI, if I use 'xinit' instead of 'startx', I only get a 'depleted' GUI
with only a terminal, xterm-like, window on the desktop. I am not quite
sure about, but shouldn't I get the very similar GUI's with both
commands?
> If you have multiple resolutins defined that it
> is capable of using, you can switch between them with control-alt-keypad
> + or -.
>
Well, in the last case I just mentioned ('graphic & network' boot mode),
I actually have to switch the resolution this way, because the GUI
initializes itself in not acceptable resolution where I don't see most
of the desktop. So, I am able to use ctrl-alt-/+ or -/ but it doesn't
resolve the poor color management. It means that I must settle at a
manual command of 'startx' where I get better graphical environment. Of
course I would like to make it automatically like at another linux box
where I have better video subsystem. Any idea?
> I hope this is what you need to know.
>
Tnx for help. Looks like thing are getting better.
Misko
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