On Sep 24, 5:58 pm, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill wrote:
> > I may not have been able to get 2 cards set up when I loaded CentOS
> > but at least it didn't crash the Xserver right out of the box. When I
> > set up Fedora I got a graphics screen and was able to walk through the
> > setup without a hitch the problem comes when I reboot. The system
> > comes up and when it gets to the point where it should be showing the
> > gui login screen everything goes black and thats it. I've tried
> > loading it twice, the second time with the third monitor unhooked just
> > to make sure it wasn't a similar problem like I was having with CentOS
> > but nada. If I start up in single user I can log in on the command
> > line but if I run X I get a black screen. Seems to be something with
> > the default settings of Xorg. If I try to run Xorg -configure I crash
> > the whole system. If I play with xorg.conf and give it a Virtual
> > setting of 1024x768 I can get mirrored screens but I my screens can
> > handle 1280x1024 and if I try that I get the black screen again.
>
> The only distributions I've ever seen that can handle a kernel
> framebuffer resolution greater than 1024x768 have been Gentoo and SuSE.
>
> > All in all I'm not real happy with Fedora but I'll play with it a
> > bit. Hell right now with the firewall turned off and sshd running I
> > can't even log in or even ping the computer but it can ping anyone
> > else. AAAAHHHHRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!
>
> Suffice it to say I'm not very fond of Red Hat -based distributions.
CentOS handled the 1280x1024 right out of the box and as long as I
stuck to just two screens on a dual head card it was fine.
I'm now trying, as suggested, one of the older driver packs from ATI,
at least I think I am, I downloaded the one just before the file name
and version name changed back in 2007 if thats not what I wanted
please someone let me know.
So far no luck but I did find out something, the GLX module is being
loaded even though I've removed all references to nvidia so I changed
the glx module name and now that it can't find it when the Xserver
starts, and complains about it in the log, I get different errors but
I think I'm closer then before. Can anyone tell me what modules
should be loading?? I've removed the module section in xorg.conf when
I realized that GLX was still loading but that did not change the logs
so I had to rename the module itself to get it to stop loading. What
else tells X to load the modules?
Bill
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