Given all the oddities you've encountered since this tech did his work, I'd
really wonder if you have a complete picture of what he or she did.
Specifically, I'd be curious as to whether you have the same video card that
you previously had; these are not the sorts of changes I'd expect to see
from a simple addition of memory.
But in any case, your immediate problem is getting X running on a system
that (apparently) has a "Diamond Stealth Video 2500, Alliance AT24" video
card installed. The place to go for infor about video cards is
http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html . The list there doen't include a 2500,
but it does list five other "Diamond Stealth64 Video" video cards, all of
which use the XF86_S3 X server.
There's probably an XF86_S3*.rpm on your installation CD, and before I did
anything major to the system, I'd try installing that and seeing if
Xconfigurator (or a less automated but more informative installer like
xf86config) can install it succesfully.
To find out more about the actual video card you have in your system, use
SuperProbe.
At 02:10 PM 7/12/00 +0800, Peter wrote:
>Hi,
>I upgraded my memories in which process the videocard was removed. When
>everything was put back together W98 could not find the driver for the
>videocard. It was then installed and W98 run again.
>Going to Linux RH 6.2 startx did not work anymore saying "Fatal error, no
>screens found"
>Doing Xconfigurator my usual way, hitting on the first selection '2the
>MAXColor S3 Trio64V+' and then 'Custom' a message shows up: "Error
>dedecting video ram."
>When I go back and select my videocard Diamond Stealth Video 2500,
>Alliance AT24 which I never did before since I did not know my video
>card the program jumps out with the message "Server doesn't
>exist, can't continue. tried to use .../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA.
>This is the same video card I always had.
>What do I have to do?
>
>Will reinstall RH 6.2 with or w/t formating / and/or /usr do the trick?
>
>Do I need a driver for linux for the video card?
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