Re: Old Video Card Problem in RH9

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

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bbb it net au wrote:
| "Should your monitor handle the H and V sync given above?"
|
| My monitor came with the original very old system. No manuals
supplied. The
| video card manual requires a minimum vertical refresh rate VGA monitor of
| 43Hz. I am unable to tell anything else about the monitor.
|
| I am attempting to configure RH9.  RH7.2 does successfully install its
| Xserver on my machine

Got a copy of the old XF86Config file somewhere? Might help us find the
correct frequencies for the monitor.

| "This is screwy. It's seams to detect the same card (same memory range)
| many times. What ID does lspci show the card at?"
|
| 00:0b.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: S3 Inc. 86c864 [Vision 864
| DRAM] vers 0
| 	Flags: medium devsel
| 	Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
| 	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]

OK that's 0:11:0 in the XFree86 log. Still confused by the multiple
detection issue.

| Output of XF86config.new
Notice all the duplicates in there. That's from the multiple detection.
Lets delete a bunch of them.

| Section "ServerLayout"
| 	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
| 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
| 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
| 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
| EndSection

Delete the other lines about "Screen"s.

| Section "Files"
| 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
| 	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
| EndSection
|
| Section "Module"
| 	Load  "dbe"
| 	Load  "extmod"
| 	Load  "glx"
| 	Load  "record"
| 	Load  "xtrap"
| 	Load  "speedo"
| 	Load  "type1"
| EndSection

You don't need the dri line, but it shouldn't hurt.

| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
| 	Driver      "keyboard"
~        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
~        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
~        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
| EndSection

Notice the additions. The may not be needed, but they shouldn't hurt.

| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
| 	Driver      "mouse"
| 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
| 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
| EndSection

Is /dev/mouse a symlink to you mouse device?
Specifying the protocol mught help too. Never liked auto detection, it
breaks too much. Likley change "auto" to "PS/2" and /dev/mouse should
point to /dev/psaux

| Section "Monitor"
| 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
| 	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
| 	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
| EndSection
We need this one, but it will probably need to tweaks.
Notice no frequencies are given.

Really need them.
from the suggested "generic" settings try:
~       VertRefresh  31.5-57.0
~       HorizSync    50-70

(put after ModelName, before EndSection.

Delete the other "Monitor" sections.

| Section "Device"
|         ### Available Driver options are:-
|         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
|         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
|         ### [arg]: arg optional
|         #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "DefaultRefresh"     	# [<bool>]
| 	Identifier  "Card0"
| 	Driver      "vesa"
| 	VendorName  "S3 Inc."
| 	BoardName   "86c864 [Vision 864 DRAM] vers 0"
| 	BusID       "PCI:0:11:0"
| EndSection

This is the actual card (according to lspci) so delete the other
"Device" sections.

| Section "Screen"
| 	Identifier "Screen0"
| 	Device     "Card0"
| 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
| 	SubSection "Display"
| 		Depth     16
~                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
| 	EndSubSection
| EndSection
Let's drop the other color depths for now, and set 16 as the default.
Also add the Modes line. It should handle one of those.
How much video memory does the card have?

Delete the other "Screen" sections.


You really should post the modified config file and the resulting
XFree86.0.log to the Mike's xfree list xfree86-list redhat com

Signup here, https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list

It's low volume, and the Red Hat Xfree86 developer will see it there. He
doesn't really read the other lists.

	-Thomas
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