the answer is upgrade the X software. Pull the X software that is available via the CVS tree. If you have all the required libraries loaded you should be able to just do a "make World" Jeff > > I have a brand-new Dell Dimension 2300 with a brand-new install of RedHat > 8.0, and I cannot get X running. The video is an Intel 845 with 32MB of > RAM, and the monitor is a KDS VS-70. I have tried every combination of > video driver and monitor selection that remotely makes sense. > > The xf86config selector gives the 845 as an option, then tells me it's > using an i810 driver. I notice that the resulting XF86Config file has the > VideoRam entry commented out. I holds the value I entered, but since it's > commented out, it's kind of pointless. > > Intel's support site recommends using the vesa driver, and I've tried that. > > When I run redhat-config-xfree86, it fails, with a report from ddcprobe > that invalid data is returned, but when I run ddcprobe manually, it reports > everything correctly, except that it thinks I have 0 bytes of video ram. > > Any help will be appreciated, even if only that my next step is popping $40 > for a video card. > -- > Daryl Lee > _______________________________________________ > > 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
