On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:28:35PM +0000, Ross Macintyre wrote: > > Hi Brent, thanks again for spending time on this. > I have decided that my best approach here is to try your XF86Config > file first, and if that fails then I will do as you suggest and install > the older RPMs(I'm fairly comfortable with this). OK, but what confuses > me is this: > I'm sitting at the machine looking at the monitor which is conected to > the on-board video. Now what is the best way to test if the display is > working? Normally I would just try 'startx'. But does this not display > to the monitor I am currently using? Or am I supposed to connect the > monitor to new video connector? maybe the best way is to connect the > monitor to the new connector and do all the testing remotely? Login and > just try and start X or xdm? Well, since the XFree86 in 8.0 doesn't work with the onboard video card, I would recommend only connecting the monitor to the add-in card. I would't recommend doing the testing remotely...just do it locally on the machine. An easy way to test if X is working is just to run "X" at the command line. This will only try to start X instead of the entire desktop. All you should see is a mouse cursor on a black background. > I am obviously missing something very basic here( and would probably be > better off installing the old RPMs) but there must be something in the > XF86Config file wich says use monitorA and not monitorB. > Actually now I've decided to look at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file I > can see that it see the device ok but there is something wrong > in the XF86Config file/ I'll attach the output log and see if that > gives you any hints: > (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:4:0) found > (EE) No devices detected. The XF86Config file is telling X to try the s3 driver, but it looks like there's no monitor connected to the S3 card. That is probably what is making X fail to load. It's hard for me to say without having a similar machine to try things out with. Cheers, Brent -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
