I don't have a solution, but check "driver status" page at www.xfree86.org. Some of the S3 Savage chips are not supported by 4.2.0, but I could nor find the chip you mention in either the 4.2.0 list or the 3.3.6 list. However, this does not explain why you could not install in graphical mode. The installation program should use a video mode that is compatible with just about any card that supports vga. I have used cards to install Red Hat 7.3 that have S3 video ships that are not supported by xfree86 4.2.0. Vic Roberts -----Original Message----- From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf Of Jad Nehman Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:25 AM To: newbie@XFree86.Org Subject: Video card problem 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
