Sorry about firing this off to the list... I'm not sure I trust the
email address for "root"... ;o)
> I got as far as XFree86 -config /root/XFreeConfig.new
> and the gray pixelated screen with a mouse pointer came up (yes the
> mouse worked) and stayed like that for a good 5 minutes..I finally
> did "ctrl alt backspace" I tried starting X and all I got was the
> message some thing like "ServerLayout" not a valid section name
> did you run into this ? if so how did you get past it? BTW..I'm using
> a 3dFX Voodoo# 2000
> TIA
> Mike Julien
Well, since I have a Voodoo3 2000 card, here's my XF86Config-4 (sorry, I
usually strip the comments):
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
mode 0666
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
Option "blank time" "10"
Option "standby time" "20"
Option "suspend time" "30"
Option "off time" "60"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
# Option "AutoRepeat" "100 5"
# Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Goldstar"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-120
Modeline "640x480" 45.8 640 672 768 864 480 488 494 530
Modeline "800x600" 69.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640
Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823
Modeline "1280x1024" 110 1280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054
Modeline "1376x1032" 110 1376 1424 1608 1808 1032 1033 1035 1072
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo3"
Driver "tdfx"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Main"
Device "Voodoo3"
Monitor "Goldstar"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1376x1032" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1376x1032" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1376x1032" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1376x1032" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1376x1032" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection