Thankyou kindly Cameron.
Indeed XF86-SVGA was not intalled. So far so good.
Two more problems have arisen since that I cannot seem to get a handle
on.
1. I actually have a desktop diplayed now. Unfortunately unless I
manually set the resolution to "640x480", by editing XF86config, only
the top left corner of the desktop is displayed.
from XF86config
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "NVIDIA Riva TNT2 (generic)
Monitor "Acer77c"
DefaultColorDepth 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
Emd Subsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
End Subsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480"
End Subsection
End Subsection
-> note I have manually deleted references to resolutions > 640x480 for
32 bit color depth, as mentioned above.
2. The mouse does not work. "M$ Intellimouse" with wheel
from XF86config
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "dev/mouse"
-> have created a symbolic link to psaux
The monitor is capable of 1280x1024 @ 75Hz & 32bit, and the card
1152x864 @ 150 Hz & 32bit, (higher in fact).
Both these specs quoted from their respective manuals.
By the way the monitor and card on my Redhat box have similar specs and
I have no problems there, running Xfree86 4.0.1 though.
I am deadset keen to have this work, and am actually enjoying the
challenge.
Regards
David Underwood.
