Re: [aclug-L] Video Card Support

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary,

I'm afraid I can't help with this specific problem, but here are some
places that you can check for assistance:

 * www.xfree86.org
     Homepage for the X server you've got, has links to support info
 * Usenet newsgroups, look under the comp hierarchy, maybe comp.os; I 
   forget the exact name.
 * Mailing lists for your distribution

-- John

"Gary L Merrick" <scarabea@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I can't get Red Hat 5.2 to use my Video Card correctly. I had thought I'd
> found the solution with the 3.3.3 version of Xwindows (XFree86) and it did
> include my Diamond Speedstar A50, but no matter what setting I use it'll
> come up with no text, scrambled graphics, virtual desktop and or any
> combination there-of with Xconfigurator and XF86config, I can't even get
> into XF86Setup. It appears also that the server is only seeing 1024 of my
> cards 8mb's of RAM. I even downloaded the 2.2 Kernel and tried to compile
> it, but when LILO reboots, it still shows Linux Ver 2.0.+ I really want to
> switch over to Linux completely, but I'm glad I'm dual booting with Windows
> 98, because right now Linux is no good to me if I can't see any of the
> graphical menus. I can't even edit any of the config files because I can't
> see them in any Xwindows editors.
> 
> PLEASE help, I'd hate to have to dump Xwindows over a problem this silly,
> it's got to be some little silly thing that I'm missing.
> 
> Gary Merrick
> scarabea@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 

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John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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