[linux-help] Re: XF86Config for RH-7.0

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 10:07, Bob wrote:
> I have never been able to make this computer
>           display anything but 640 x 480 since changing
>           to RH-7.0. That's the default scan after
>           installation.  In Windows on the same box it
>           runs 1024 x 768 so I know the hardware should
>           not be the problem.
<snip>
>           This is an old IBM Aptiva Pentium 100 mHz,
>           with 64 megs of RAM and a 2 G HD, video chip
>           is a trident tgui 9680, vid. mem 1024,

In my experience, those Trident 9xxx chipsets are extremely finicky. I've 
gotten them to work at 1024x768, but not EVERY video card (with the same 
chipset...). On the machines I was working with when I last abused myself 
trying to get them to work, they would lock the machine's hardware up if you 
selected the wrong parameters. It was all trial & error and you'd have to 
wait for a reboot & fsck between every attempt. Took forever and it was 
extremely frustrating. I've had about 4 machines that worked with those 
cards, one never did. This was in the RH 6.2 days, newer versions of XF86 may 
do better.

I _might_ have an XF86Config file from one of those left somewhere at work. 
I'll check and get back to you.

Greg
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