Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
Sorry about my bad typing, I meant eratta. I would look at http://www.s3graphics.com/ And look for documentation on issues running X -Derek On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using.

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It sounds like there may be some kernel/system changes you may need to make since your lockups are from going back to text mode from graphics mode. It is likely some conflict this is causing is hardware related. -Derek On Wed, 30

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roger Merritt
At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It sounds like there may be some kernel/system changes you may need to make since your lockups are from going back to text mode from graphics mode. It is likely some conflict this is causing is

Monitor display problem

2006-08-29 Thread Roger Merritt
I recently acquired a newer box to hold my server. I was using a PII 300MHz with 64MB RAM. The new box has an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 239MB (?) RAM and what seems most pertinent, an S3 ProSavage DDR (86c420) graphics chip. When I first tried configuring X I discovered that when I tried to