"Risenhoover, Paul" wrote: > > Hi All, > > There have been a lot of questions about an issue with the new XFree86 > that comes with RedHat 9.0. Specifically, the driver ignores the > modeline and eithe (a) can't find a working screen (ATI) or (b) can't > drive a non-standard resolution. > > Other symptoms are that the Modelines set in XFree86Config are being > ignored. > > This issue is in bugzilla and it's marked as resolved. I had the same > problem but was able to find a work around. > > Here's what I did. > > 1 - Go to http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/ and get the drivers > specific for your configuration and the XFree86 binary. In my case, > with an ATI card, I downloaded the following files: > > XFree86 > ati_drv.o > atimisc_drv.o > r128_drv.o > > (These might all not be necessary). > > 2. Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and replace the existing > drivers with the ones you just downloaded. You should save the old > ones, probably. > > 3. Go to /usr/X11R6/bin and replace the copy of XFree86 you find there > with the one you just downloaded. > > 4. Reboot your machine. In my case, I needed to power down and back up. > > That should do it. As soon as my machine came back up it was working > perfectly. The fonts look better too. > > Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to help out. > would this also resolve hardware acceleration issues or only for missing screens? I have redHat 9, and have been unable to get my 3d card to do any sort of acceleration. thanks, sol _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
