XF86Config Errors

[Austin Isler]

I decided to switch from the S3 Savage Drivers to the VESA driver 
instead. IT FINALLY LOADS IN 1024x768. :)

Satish Balay wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aaron Hughes wrote:
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>>Austin Isler wrote:
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>>>I recently was given a computer to "mess" around with. I went to 
>>>install Fedora Core 1 on it
>>>and I chose the GUI install option. My ViewSonic PF790 went into sleep 
>>>mode and
>>>showed me nothing. So I decided to install in text mode, once I had 
>>>Fedora installed I went to
>>>load up in runlevel 5 and again monitor went into sleep mode. So I 
>>>rebooted in runlevel 3 and
>>>used lynx to google around. I found out that the video card in the box 
>>>is a S3 Savage card,
>>>and there has been some issues with that and XFree86. I researched 
>>>some more and found
>>>that if I changed my vsync and hsync in XF86Config, that my help. So I 
>>>changed it to a setting they gave on the site and ran startx. X 
>>>started but in 840x680, bleh.
>>>What I want is to get it loaded in 1024x768, but I dont know the 
>>>correct vsync and hsync to do this. I have changed it several time 
>>>from suggestions I saw on the net, but no go. Anyone have any idea 
>>>what im doing wrong and can you please help me?
>>>
>>>Austin Isler
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>>I had the same problem with my video card(nvidia tnt2) and monitor (some 
>>old gateway crystalscan).  The only thing that solved it for me was 
>>installing redhat 9 and then updating to fedora core 1.  Even when I 
>>selected the correct video card and monitor settings I had problems when 
>>I just installed Fedora core 1 but if I updated from redhat 9 which 
>>properly detected all my settings it worked fine.
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>Alternatively - install the latest updates (there are kernel/XFree86
>updates) using either up2date or yum (make sure you use a mirror) -
>and try running redhat-config-xfree86 and see if this cofigures x
>correctly.
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>Satish
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