"vesa" is the *universal* driver for X 4.x.x regrettably it is not accelerated "no screen found" can be due to the device (or the monitor) not being recognised Lionel --- shikha <for_shikha@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I m sharing the solution i stepped on while configuring video card. I had a an ATI rage 128 > ultra pro card, which was neither listed in the xfconfig nor in the Kxconfig provided by > caldera people. While configuring my OPenlinux server, i was also configuring Open unix base > operating system on another PC of the same cofiguration. This OS identified the card as VESA ati > rage 128 ultra pro (!!) . After observing this I configured generic VESA in my OpenLinux > Server..(because VESA ati rage 128 ultra pro was not listed ) Honestly i was not expecting > anything...but out of the black my desktop appeared..and it looks even better then windows!! > > In the whole episode i could not understand a few things: > > 1:Before all this mismatch, I was continously seeing the message of Fatal server error 'no > screens found", even when i had a screen section in xconfig file. > > 2: Making changes in xfconfig for openlinux did not help..may be because of the card option and > ..and in any case the OS picks Kxconfig file instead of Xfconfig file ...does it mean that > openlinux does not use Xfconfig to look for settings? > > there could be other points also which i may have missed..but i hope this will help people who > are stuck up with the same card as mine.. > > shikha > > P.S. nowhere on Ati,caldera or dell (monitor) website this card is listed as it is recognised by > the OS. if somebody can make this information official then it may help a lot of people. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
