I've successfully installed RedHat 9, but on bootup I get a message about not being able to start the xserver, then it leaves me with a text window. Linux seems to be functioning ok from there. The video card (Trio 32/64) was recognized during the installation, and the monitor (Gateway Crystal Scan 1024 NI) I found in the list provided (I was surprized). Once I selected this, the panel with the scan frequencies showed values that more or less agreed with the manual I have for the monitor. The installation guide says I'll get a gui to help me set preferences - but I never get one. I've tried editing the XF86Config file to tell it to use the vesa driver instead of the S3 -- but it still fails. I also have Windows XP installed, and the monitor works fine there. What I think is happening, from the messages I get, is that the configurator finds the card ok, but it gets no answer back from the monitor (it being so old that it doesn't respond?). It then creates a default configuration file and tries again, to no avail. I think it is a bug that there seems to be no way to force the server to use the monitor I told it to use and not probe to see if I got it right. I have the log file, but somewhere between getting it on floppy and viewing it from Windows, it seems to have lost the line breaks. I enclose it anyway, in hopes that it is useful as is. The troubles are shown, of course, near the end: Primary Device is: (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:8:0) found it repeats that many times as it steps throught the addresses down to (BusID PCI:9:19:0) Then (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: No screens found Hopefully, you can suggest to me a way around this?
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