REPOST: Installation worked from hard-disk, now X-Windows trouble

Hannes Mayer fedora at ancientcoins.biz
Sun May 23 13:22:56 UTC 2004


Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Tarek M. Nabil wrote:
> 
>> Actually I did not upgrade to FC2. I chose FC1 cause I'm new to Linux 
>> and I
>> thought FC1 would be more stable?
>>
>> Do I need to upgrade to FC2, or should I just try to fix my X problem?
>>
>> My videocard as Windows recognizes it is Intel(R) 82865G Graphics 
>> Controller
>> with 64MB of Memory. The monitor is recognized by Windows as a "Plug and
>> Play monitor", not very useful.
> 
> 
> Ahh, well, I never used FC1, so I may be of limited help here...
> 
> But try to set DefaultDepth to 16 in Section "Screen" in the xfree86 
> config file:
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device     "Videocard0"
>     Monitor    "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth     16
> 
> Maybe this helps ...
> What is your color-depth in windoze ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 
> 

err... have your tried:

system-config-display --reconfig

?

Cheers,
Hannes.






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