I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I
have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which
package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and
install it over what's there now.
I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from
tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them.
Anthony Huereca wrote:
>
> I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch
> like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I
> had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I
> boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still
> works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was
> a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now.
>
> > I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted
> > down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz.
> > Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I
> > asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480).
> > Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead.
> > I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault.
> > The error was along these lines...
> > Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps)
> > section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were
> > listed...
> > ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513)
> > .... Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519)
> > .... Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537)
> > SSegmentation fault (Core dumped)
> >
> > Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour
> > futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and
> > installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation
> > fault (Core dumped).
> >
> > The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP).
> > My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this
> > card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was
> > no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK).
> >
> > --
> > Digital Wokan
> > Tribal mage of the electronics age
> > Guerilla Linux Warrior
> --
> Anthony Huereca
> http://m3000.1wh.com
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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