Thank you very much for your response. What you suggest had an effect, but not an entirely good one... David Dawes writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:27:54PM -0800, John Chandler wrote: > >When I my newly-installed RedHat system launches, X fails with this > >message: > > > > [...] > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:08:0 > > (WW) TRIDENT: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found > > (EE) No devices detected. > > > > Fatal server error: > > no screens found > > >(--) PCI:*(0:8:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter rev 144, Mem @ 0xd0000000/27, 0xe0000000/17, I/O @ 0xdc00/7 > >(--) PCI: (1:0:0) Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 rev 106, Mem @ 0xdd800000/23, 0xde000000/17, 0xdd000000/23 > > The easiest way to deal with this would be to make the AGP video > card the primary video card from your BIOS configuration (assuming > that it has such an option). That way you'll be using the same > card with XFree86 that you're booting on. The XFree86 server is > showing the primary video (the one you're bootting up with) to > currently be the on-board SiS video. Where do you have your > monitor connected? The monitor is not connected to the on-board video card, it is connected to the one that is mounted in a PCI slot. The on-board video has a very small amount of RAM and would only support Fisher-Price resolutions. Apparently the only thing I can do in the BIOS is specify which of the two to initialize first, I can't make the on-board one disappear entirely. One might argue that there are good reasons for that... > If you want XFree86 to run on the Trident card without making it > the primary you'll need to edit your XF86Config file to tell the > trident driver which device it should be driving. You can do that > by adding the following line to the relevant Device section of your > XF86Config file: > > Busid "1:0:0" > I tried this, and when I restarted the server from the command line, the screen went dark and never came back. I was able to do a ctrl-alt-f1 to get back to screen one where I was then able to do a ctr-c and abort the server. I thought the trouble might be that I hadn't rebooted, so I tried that. This time, the screen went dark and stayed dark. Any clue what I ought to do at this point? (I guess I first have to look up how to boot RedHat 9 without starting X...) > A second alternative is that you really want to be using the built-in > SiS video. I wish I had a decent on-board video interface. > [We should make busid optional in cases like this where there is > only one card the driver could possibly be wanting to use.] I understand that it's not reasonable to expect you to comment on someone else's product, but maybe you have some idea why the X server used by the RH graphical install sequence seemed to choose the right card? I mean what could account for the different behavior -- it can't be that RH uses someone else's X server for installs, can it? -jmc _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
