On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 17:04, Danial Howard wrote: > Greg Alexander wrote: > > I found that support for my S3 card was discontinued as early as version 7. > > I didn't try to find a driver, just got a card that worked. > > We were able to get "Psyche" running with X-windows on an S3 Trio64. > (this video card didn't work under "Valhalla") The install detected an > S3 card and tried to use the S3 generic driver, which doesn't work. We > scrolled to the top of the list, expanded Other, and selected VESA. It > works to our satisfaction. There may be a way to choose VESA after the > installation is complete, but I don't know how. > > By the way, when Anaconda starts during installation, it tries to load > the S3 driver and fails. It tries the VESA driver which works, and > then continues the graphical install. Ok... I'm exporting X to another machine and I run redhat-config-xfree86. I've selected VESA as the driver. Things get a whole load further than they used to, but X still can't load... does what it would normally when attempting to run a configuration incompatible with your system (in terms of resolution & color depth) I suspect the issue now is the monitor setup. I have an 14" LG440Si monitor, but I can't seem to probe it. How do I find out what the specs are ? I get this output when running redhat-config-xfree86: # redhat-config-xfree86 * ddcprobe returned bogus values: ID: GSM36bd Name: None HorizSync: -268377405--268391058 VertSync: -268391058--268370092
