On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Linn Kubler wrote: >Kind of a rookie here so I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have an >older computer, PII 266MHz, with a Diamond Stealth II S220 graphics >card. Was originally running Windows 95 and worked fine. Hmm, that's an oldie. Sounds like it might be an old Diamond S3 based card. >I recently installed RH8.0 and it's basically working but when I run >startx it launches but it's huge. The task bar covers about 1/3 of the >screen and icons are about 3" wide. It looks like the resolution is way >down, like whatever the next setting below 640x480 is. > >Question is then, how can I correct this? I should also mention that >during the installation, when it let me pick the graphics card and test >it I couldn't get it to display any resonable resolution. This card was >listed in the selection list but it would just blink and go right back >when I hit the test button, regardless of the resolution setting. > >I checked for drivers at the Diamond site but of course couldn't find >any. > >I'm open to suggestions here. (crossing fingers there's another option >other than replacing the video card.) Run the following command as root, and cut and paste the results: lspci -vvn |grep -A20 0300 -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
