Could you go to the log /var/log/XFree86.0.log and post it as well as the XF86Config (resp XF86Config-4 if X is mixed up) which the log tells you it is using by the way check the specs of your monitor just in case you are getting too high a refresh rate... Lionel --- Diego Cardinali <scroto@interfree.it> wrote: > > ----- 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
