Hi, I am having a BIT of a problem with my video card. Problem: -------- When I tried installing RedHat 7.3 through graphical mode, I could not see the whole screen so for example the Next button was not visible for me to use the mouse and click it. So I installed it using text mode. When I log on to Gnome or KDE , a similar problem happens again. When I start up Netscape, I can't see the "Accept " button and everything is too big. The funny thing is that the Gnome Panel is smaller than usual and not all the default icons are there such as Netscape ( I know I can add it but i am not sure why it is happening) Info: --------------- The video card is a S3 Savage 294 (Chip id: 8C12). I had a look at the ROM on the card and looked it up to determine the size of the RAM and it 4 MB. Monitor: Gold Star (http://www.lgeservice.com/1505s.html) Attempted Solutions: ------------------- 1) I changed the video card to see if it could be a mother board problem and it is not ( could the combination of the motherboard and the card cause a problem?) 2)I tried running Xconfigurator from Gnome/KDE but even the lowest resolution does not seem to display anything so i ran it from the shell prompt by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1(Is it possible to run Xconfigurator from Gnome/KDE properly?) >From the shell prompt when I test the X Configuration I can't seem to be able to get a proper looking desktop.Eventhough I couldn't get a proper desktop from the test, I tried to go ahead with some different resolutions, for example one where my desktop has got the Netscape icon in the Panel but eventhough things still look big :) , when I restart Linux, it goes back to the Old configuration ! not sure why. I also tried xf86config with no luck. I tried changing the run level to 3 and loged in text mode, I ran Xconfigurator and ran startx and still the old configuration comes up. 3)I had a look at : http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html but couldn't find detailed information on how to do things such as installing a new driver ... Few Random questions: --------------------- 1) How do you know what version of XFree86 is installed? if /etc/X11/X is pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA then it is 3.3.6 and it it point to XFree86 it is 4.x ? 2)Is it true that some of the latest versions of xfree86 do not support some of the old cards? My card is listed on : http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/savage.4.html Should I still install an old version ? 3)I wanted to double check the RAM on the video card through SuperProbe but couldn't find it, is it still available. I hope I didn't ask too many questions ! did I ? :) Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks. Jad _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
