>>> mharris@redhat.com 11/16/02 00:49 AM >>>
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
Here goes:
00:0a.0 Class 0300: 1163:2000 (rev 02)
Subsystem: 1092:2000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64, cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefectchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: I/O ports at 6c00 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at e5000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] AGP version 1.0
Status: RQ=0 SBA- 64bit- FW- Rate=x1
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=x1
Not sure what to make of all this, hope it makes sense to you. :)
Thanks,
Linn
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