Well, if you read headers, you can see that I'm writing this from
Netscape 4.73 in Linux.
It did require XConfigurator, but I still had to find those errors I
mentioned for it to work.
It seems MandrakeSoft put the SERVER directive _after_ the DRIVER
directive in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards+ for the TGUI9660 and TGUI9680.
And then to top that they didn't even list a SERVER directive for the
Trident Cyber 9320.
Once I moved/added the SERVER directives, XF86Setup no longer gave me
those errors, but it did still segfault. XConfigurator did get things
going though. (Oh, xf86config also errored and segfaulted before the
editing and I didn't try it again afterward.)
Perhaps I should try getting the source for XF86Setup and rebuilding it
myself. I really prefer it for getting everything configured in the
order I choose, instead of getting hearded down text menus.
Anthony Huereca wrote:
>
> Hmmm, I just tried XF86Setup on my machine, and it segfaulted too.
> Xconfigurator works fine though, try that.
>
> > I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I
> > have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which
> > package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and
> > install it over what's there now.
> > I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from
> > tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them.
> >
> > Anthony Huereca wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch
> > > like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I
> > > had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I
> > > boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still
> > > works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was
> > > a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now.
> > >
> > > > I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted
> > > > down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz.
> > > > Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I
> > > > asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480).
> > > > Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead.
> > > > I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault.
> > > > The error was along these lines...
> > > > Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps)
> > > > section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were
> > > > listed...
> > > > ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513)
> > > > .... Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519)
> > > > .... Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537)
> > > > SSegmentation fault (Core dumped)
> > > >
> > > > Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour
> > > > futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and
> > > > installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation
> > > > fault (Core dumped).
> > > >
> > > > The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP).
> > > > My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this
> > > > card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was
> > > > no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK).
