----- Original Message ----- From: Lionel Lecoq <lionel_lecoq@yahoo.com> To: <newbie@XFree86.Org> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 5:34 PM Subject: Re: RedHat 7.3, S3 Trio64V+ and Sampo Alphascan 411: monitor turns off if I try 24 bit mode > You may get the same result without going back to 6.2 by forcing the install program to select X > 3.3.6 (I believe there is a preferx3 or something like that in the conf parms) This is what I did > for an antique laptop with RH 7.2, it runs nice and accelerated with X 3.3.6 and hideously slow > with 4.1 and vesa... > You could have a look in /usr/X11R6/bin to see whether there are a few XF86_whatever (these being > the 3.3.6 servers) if there is one you recognise as you old friend (often XF86_SVGA possibly > XF86_S3) Then it suffices to change /etc/X11/X from a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (the X > 4.x.x server) to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_whatever and to ask Xconfigurator to generate the apropriate > XF86Config > > Lionel I checked the X link, and it actually goes to XF86_S3!!!! I tried XF86_SVGA, but I had the same horrible result: at 800x600 24 bit I get my monitor turned off... Diego _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
