Video card detection and /dev/fb0

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On Aug 27, 2003 at 01:48, Emmanuel Seyman in a maddening rage wrote:

>
>I'm running Severn on an old computer which includes a Diamond Stealth 2001
>video card (ark2000pv chipset included).
>Somebody gave me a Pinnacle TV Card to test and I decided to what Severn
>had to say about it.
>
>Kudzu detected on boot and configured everything the way it should be
>and scantv gave me an almost perfect .xawtvrc file but I then realized
>X wasn't configured.
>
>Running redhat-config-xfree86 gives me the following output:
>
>* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
>ID:   None
>Name: None
>HorizSync: None
>VertSync:  None
>
>* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
>ID:   None
>Name: None
>HorizSync: None
>VertSync:  None
These have to do with your monitor and not the video card.
You need the specs for your monitor and then edit the XF86Config
file generated and put them in.

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