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 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 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 offerd 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. When it was done the Xconfig file contained entries for "My Video Card" in the device and screen sections. At www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/linux-compaq/ the author said a link needed to be added: "ln -fs /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V /etc/X11/X" I didn't need to do this to get it to work. I think Xconfigurator created the link as there is an /etc/X11/X file on my system. (Of course there was one before, so I don't know for sure.) One glitch remains: When leaving moving from Xwindow to a text screen the screen is garbled. The author at www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/linux-compaq/ says there is a program, vga_reset, that will correct that problem. I haven't been able to get that yet, so I cannot confirm it will work. If you know how to get vga_reset (supposedly included in Desbian Distribution) let me know. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
