XF86Config Errors
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Sun Apr 25 16:27:51 UTC 2004
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aaron Hughes wrote:
> 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.
Alternatively - install the latest updates (there are kernel/XFree86
updates) using either up2date or yum (make sure you use a mirror) -
and try running redhat-config-xfree86 and see if this cofigures x
correctly.
Satish
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