On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ken Kleiner wrote: >X11 doesn't seem to want to work on our latest DELL GX260 with a >DELL Flat panel screen. > > The system has a Intel i845 card in it, which the OS sees fine, and works >well with a DELL 21" tube monitor (X and text). > > We've tried plugging in a DELL FP1702 (flat panel) monitor into the system >and running > > redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig --noui --verbose > > This created what appears to be the proper entries in XF86Config, but >X still crashes with server errors. > > I've tried trying just a new install (booting off of RH 8.0 CD) and even >choosing the 'text' install, but that yields a black output screen with >the 'cannot display this video mode' message on the monitor (coming from >the monitor). > > Any ideas or working configs? Intel i845 video hardware is not supported by Red Hat Linux 8.0, nor by XFree86 4.2.x. Support for this hardware will be in XFree86 4.3.0. -- 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
