On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
I agree.
It works for me, which means that it should also work for you. You just need to determine what the problem really is.
No. It worked before, so it will work now. Either you've changed something or something is misconfigured. Are you using a Red Hat supplied kernel?
yes, kernel 2.4.20-20.9smp
I thought that perhaps part of my problem stems from the fact that I have a KVM switch in there and it had trouble detecting the monitor settings (though it worked fine on install months ago).
KVM switches indeed can cause problems, and as such they are unsupported by Red Hat. It is possible to have a KVM switch that works perfectly fine with everything and has no problems, however it's also possible to have one that does not work properly or interferes with the keyboard, mouse or video, so they're unsupported. Any time you're troubleshooting X configuration problems and using a KVM, it is strongly advised to connect the hardware directly to the computer without the KVM and solve the X problems, simply to remove the KVM out of the way as a variable.
I've done this, (removing the kvm switch) but it hadn't helped any. I still got the same message, I will do that now again until I get it working again.
So I hooked a monitor up directly and it still didn't work. I've tried the MonitorLayout suggestions and I don't see any ignore messages but I also don't get anything either.
Running "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig", and the "--reconfig" part is crucial, results in the existing config file being eliminated and a brand new one generated. The new config file will be the same config file that would be generated if you were to do a brand new fresh OS installation, as the config tool generating the file is the same. The only difference would be what other software and versions are installed on your system.
If you're not using a Red Hat binary kernel, all bets are off.
I've run it with the --reconfig option many many times. Same error message everytime.
The error message you cite is incomplete, so I can't comment on wether that is something caused by something you've done wrong, or wether it is a bug in the package that I should fix. If you provide the complete error message, I will likely be able to determine that however. But you definitely shouldn't be using rawhide glibc or other major core OS components on a RHL 9 system unless you expect breakage and are willing to accept that and deal with it.
I'm not worried about these. When I got XFree86-4.3.0-2.src.rpm and it rebuilt the packages for RH9. I go to install XFree86 and running rpm -Uvh XFree86-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm gives me file conflicts, in that one file conflicts with the package that is already installed. Since these are the same files and the same things. I would expect these messages... Either way I still have the stock XFree rpms installed for RH 9.
You haven't given enough details to begin to hazard a guess as to what's wrong on your system. Instead of guessing what's wrong and making random guesses as to how to fix it, then getting frustrated when they don't work, and possibly making your entire system unstable or unuseable, why not explain the problem, then wait until someone who is able to help you has time to respond and ask for more details, etc?
That's what I thought I was doing. I've posted my config file and log 3 times now with this thread, and attempted the suggestions given me. I am grateful for the help thus far. Yet I am still not functional so still posting.
Radeon 9000 works on stock Red Hat Linux 9 in singlehead configuration. If you use a dualhead configuration
I am not, nor have I ever used or attempted to use dual head. I only have the one monitor.
Run: "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig" then startx, if it fails, then post your config file and X server log, and /var/log/messages file on the web or ftp somewhere that I can look at them. Also, "rpm -V $(rpm -qa |grep XFree86) > rpm.log".
the rpm verify command above produces no output.
you can find the log files at (I verified this link...)
I have removed lots of messages from the messages log file (mainly named timeouts and imap logins...) the smaller file is probably the one you want.
http://www.gnat.ca/Logs/
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