On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, E. Lev wrote: > Hi, > > I encountered the following problem: Red Hat 7.1 was installed on a micron > pc (on old model) and then its removable hard disk was ghosted - so it > could be used on a bunch of other microns (this is within a classroom > environment). One of the other PCs had a different video card - so > everything would boot fine except for X. I ran "setup" and the Xconfig > option - and it found the video card (S3 virge...nothing > special). However, after it found the card - it didn't go thorugh the > process of configuring the screen resolution - returning back to setup's > main page. At this point - it would still die when I tried to start X. > > Questions: > > 1. What did I do wrong ?
The S3 may need a different XFree86 server. Some use XF86_SVGA and others use XF86_S3 and some use XF86_S3V (All XFree86-3.3.6 packages) If the 'correct' X server is not installed, Xconfigurator will die. I know it used to tell you what was missing, perhaps when it detects the card and tells you which XFree86 3.3.6 driver it wants to use and it will say something like XFree86 4.0.x driver (default). > 2. I'm sure that there are multiple ways of configuring this - what are > some alternatives that I could/should try? If it doesn't like any of the above, try installing the XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6.i386.rpm and configuring X by hand. See the Framebuffer-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org for details- it's too involved for me to get into right now (and should not be necessary). -- Chris Kloiber, RHCE Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc. [root@earth root]# rm -rf /bin/laden _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
