Re: XF86Config Errors

[Aaron Hughes <hughesac clarkson edu>]

Austin Isler wrote:

> I recently was given a computer to "mess" around with. I went to 
> install Fedora Core 1 on it
> and I chose the GUI install option. My ViewSonic PF790 went into sleep 
> mode and
> showed me nothing. So I decided to install in text mode, once I had 
> Fedora installed I went to
> load up in runlevel 5 and again monitor went into sleep mode. So I 
> rebooted in runlevel 3 and
> used lynx to google around. I found out that the video card in the box 
> is a S3 Savage card,
> and there has been some issues with that and XFree86. I researched 
> some more and found
> that if I changed my vsync and hsync in XF86Config, that my help. So I 
> changed it to a setting they gave on the site and ran startx. X 
> started but in 840x680, bleh.
> What I want is to get it loaded in 1024x768, but I dont know the 
> correct vsync and hsync to do this. I have changed it several time 
> from suggestions I saw on the net, but no go. Anyone have any idea 
> what im doing wrong and can you please help me?
>
> Austin Isler
I had the same problem with my video card(nvidia tnt2) and monitor (some 
old gateway crystalscan).  The only thing that solved it for me was 
installing redhat 9 and then updating to fedora core 1.  Even when I 
selected the correct video card and monitor settings I had problems when 
I just installed Fedora core 1 but if I updated from redhat 9 which 
properly detected all my settings it worked fine.

Good luck
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