I have just completed installing RedHat 7.2 on a second Compaq Deskpro 4000 with S3 ViRGE GX video card, and I would like to add some correction/clarification to what I previously advised on the subject.
I am the newest of newbies (although I'm beginning to feel like a veteran installer - a wounded veteran at that!) so please forgive any shortcomings in my description of what I did to get it working. Again, I owe my discovery of the solution to "www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/linux-compaq/" and I thank Red Hat's support for help in finding the commands to implement the solution. Mount RedHat Installation CD # 2 Goto ...../RedHat/RPMS/ directory on CD # 2 (Where the file(s) XFree86-S3V* should reside) rpm -ivh XFree86-S3V* (This should install the needed server on your hard drive in /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86-S3V ) Xconfigurator --expert --preferxf3 --server XF86_S3V (Run the configuration program) During Xconfigurator: One needs to get to the XF86_S3V server! I found that using the command as shown above, Xconfigurator would autoprobe and select the XF86_SVGA server. Not acceptable. I think what I finally did was to issue the command "Xconfigurator --expert --server XF86_S3V --preferxf3 (I'm not entirely sure, I may have finally omitted the --preferxf3 option.) Then, Xconfigurator offered a chance to select a server (Why, I don't know, since I had just told it to use XF86_S3V.) XF86_S3V was # 4 on the list of servers offered -- that didn't work! It gave the same result as XF86_SVGA. Continue down the list! There is a second XF86_S3V entry, the next to the last entry. That one works! No preference for RAMDAC and Clock during Xconfigurator. Xconfigurator then asks permission to probe. I said yes. After that, all was well. The post Xwindows garbled console screen is still a problem, but one can, I suppose, work command-line shell. Also, I said that the vga_reset program could be found in Desbian solution. I should have said Slackware distribution. I found that information "www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/linux-compaq/", but I haven't been able to find the file at their website. it is supposedly in the d1/svgalib.tgz file of the Slackware distribution. Recall, the information was probably posted several years ago. I have found other mention of vga_reset on the internet, but so far I cannot find the file. Now for questions that I would like to have answered. When Xconfigurator autoprobed and selected a server, it asked me do select a driver. The choices were SVGA, S3V, etc. When I Xconfigurated in the expert mode, directing the choice of a server, I was asked to select a server, but not a driver. So what is a driver and what is a server in the context of XF86? Is a "server" a file containing a number of different drivers? In that context, I assume that, although Xconfigurator in the --expert --server XF86_S3V mode asks for a server, it is realy asking for a driver to pick from within the already selected server. Is that correct? After running the rpm command to install XF86_S3V, I ran locate and the file wasn't found. I ran rpm again, and the thing reported that XF86_S3V had been installed. Later, for no reason I can discern, locate was able to find XF86-S3V. I did locate-u to create a database -- that didn't seem to make a difference. Anyone know why the locate command might be "intermittant" in finding files? _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
