FC3 on a Compaq notebook: X trouble
Douglas Frank
frank at zk3.dec.com
Wed Feb 16 22:26:00 UTC 2005
(Oops, yep, I did mean runlevel 3.) That's what I've been doing for the
past hour. Good thing they pay me the big bucks, I'd hate for this to
be easy. ;-)
Upshot is this: Fedora probes my (on-board) video card and identifies it
as an "S3 ProSavage KN133." It is actually an "S3-VIA Twister K"
according to s3graphics.com. I've been running system-config-display
trying various settings. The only successful combination I've found so
far is "generic 800x600" w/ "generic VGA display" and 256 colors.
Still pretty much unusable :-]
Googling around for this box, I see I'm in plenty of company in not
being able to get X going on this laptop. The funny thing is, I had it
working with RH9. Unfortunately I didn't save off the old conf file.
:-(
I wonder if RH9 had a driver for the S3 Twister that has since been
dropped.
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > I'm guessing there's a memory alignment problem. This laptop takes 16
> > MB off the top (I think) of main memory to use for video.
> >
> > I've got it up at runlevel 4 now and am experimenting with xconfig
>
> Boot into runlevel 3 and issue the command:
>
> system-config-display --reconfig
>
> This will allow you to set your monitor and display settings.
>
> Please report your results back!
> Thomas
>
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