Autoprobing gave me an error trying to find amount of ram on my Diamond Fire so
I manually entered the amount of ram that is on my card and it appears to work
fine. As it seems you got your Xwindows to work except you appear to have
virtual screen enabled. I found some success running xf86config rather than
using Xconfigurator. It is harder to use but it has an option you can use
after you have set up your video card and monitor then watch for the line
asking you if you want to enable virtual screen (screen larger than your
monitor screen) and answer "n" for no.
Ketan Gandhi wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I am having some trouble with my X Server config...
> My linux box:
> J-530BF motherboard,
> built in Sis 530 AGP VGA Card,
> 160 M (PC 100) RAM,
> AMD K6-2 400
> Running Linux 6.0 (XFree86-3.3.3.1, 2.2.5 kernel)
>
> Here is the info on the sound card from the PC's manual:
> -Built-in high performance 3D AGP VGA
> -Supports shared memory 2MB-8MB selectable in BIOS Setup (I have set this to
> 8MB)
> -64 bits memory data interface
> -Integrated programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 230KHz pixel clock
> -Integrated two 96x64 video line buffers for MPEG video playback
> -Supports 64 bit memory data bus interface
> -Integrated high performance and high quality 3D engine
> -Supports DIC, Direct Draw Driver
> -Supports AGP Spec 1.0 compliant, 1xmode(66Mhz), 2xmode(133Mhz)
>
> Problem:
> I cant seem to get the correct resolution set up for the XServer.(SVGA
> XServer)
>
> Steps taken:
> I ran Xconfigurator and it detected the Video card, then I selected my
> monitor correctly,
> and then I choose 8-bit 1024x768 resolution. In the Clockchip Configuration
> window I
> select No Clockchip setting (recommended) option.
> Then, when I manually select 8MB ram for the video card (since if I let it
> probe, it gives me an error detecting the video ram) and then when I start
> the X Server using startx, the resolution/screen size is too big. I see huge
> buttons, fonts etc..and I cant seem to change this.....
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have tried running SuperProbe but I got the foll. o/p:
> First Video: Super-VGA
> Chipset: Silicon Integrated Systems (chipset unknown) (PCI probed)
> Signature data: 14 (please report)
> Memory : 0 Kbytes
> RAMDAC : Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
> (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
>
> Why does this indicate no RAM whereas I have allocated 8MB in BIOS ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ketan
>
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