You need to find out what the Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates are for the Packard Bell Monitor. Then use "Custom" monitor on the Xconfigurator set up and add those setting into the appropriate lines. This should solve part of the problem. You might also try getting the SVGA Xserver to run in place of the VGA one. I hope this helps! Respectfully, Cary
PC Networks, Inc. and KY4U, LLC Cary Pembleton 32 Cove LN Campbellsville, KY 42718 270-469-4405 Office 270-469-9104 Fax mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail http://www.ky4u.com/ Corporate Site http://www.clickonamovie.com/ Project Site -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Willis Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newbie]Problems with X - S3 Virge GX and PB8538SVGA I've been having fits trying to get X to work properly on a Compaq deskpro with a S3 Virge/GX graphics card and a Packard Bell PB8538SVGA monitor. I have had the same problems with Mandrake 8.0, 8.1, and RH 7.2. My latest (and hopefully last) install is Mandrake 8.1 with XFree86 3.3. I have tried both the 4.1 and 3.3 versions of X. Basically, whenever I go through the configuration, a VGA X server is used rather than the one specific to the S3 card. The X display is visible, but has all kinds of lines and distortions. The monitor is not on any of the hardware lists I've seen, so I've tried the various generic VGA monitor settings as well as those of similar Packard Bell monitors. I'm assuming that this is where my problem comes in- VGA is winning out over S3 for the Xserver. I have tried running both ln -sf ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /etc/X11/X and ln -sf ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V /etc/X11/X to point things to the right Xserver to no avail (I have installed both S3 RPMs). At one point, I was able to get X to work properly with an old IBM 8518 monitor (in 640 x 480 mode) and was able to point things to the S3 X server. However, I've not been able to replicate this with the packard bell monitor. This used computer is a (now belated) Christmas gift for my brother in-law. I'm frustrated to the point of almost being ready to load Windoze on the machine and forget about it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thx Dan Willis _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
