"vesa" is the *universal* driver for X 4.x.x regrettably it is not accelerated "no screen found" can be due to the device (or the monitor) not being recognised Lionel --- shikha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I m sharing the solution i stepped on while configuring video card. I had a an ATI >rage 128 > ultra pro card, which was neither listed in the xfconfig nor in the Kxconfig >provided by > caldera people. While configuring my OPenlinux server, i was also configuring Open >unix base > operating system on another PC of the same cofiguration. This OS identified the card >as VESA ati > rage 128 ultra pro (!!) . After observing this I configured generic VESA in my >OpenLinux > Server..(because VESA ati rage 128 ultra pro was not listed ) Honestly i was not >expecting > anything...but out of the black my desktop appeared..and it looks even better then >windows!! > > In the whole episode i could not understand a few things: > > 1:Before all this mismatch, I was continously seeing the message of Fatal server >error 'no > screens found", even when i had a screen section in xconfig file. > > 2: Making changes in xfconfig for openlinux did not help..may be because of the card >option and > ..and in any case the OS picks Kxconfig file instead of Xfconfig file ...does it >mean that > openlinux does not use Xfconfig to look for settings? > > there could be other points also which i may have missed..but i hope this will help >people who > are stuck up with the same card as mine.. > > shikha > > P.S. nowhere on Ati,caldera or dell (monitor) website this card is listed as it is >recognised by > the OS. if somebody can make this information official then it may help a lot of >people. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
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