Thanks, Paul
Tried your suggestion, but cannot change the settings
for my video card on my BIOS (I presume that's what
you meant?!) It defaults to detecting the PCI video
card and default cannot be changed.
Set the Windows display property settings to the
values you suggested (16bit, 800*600), but that did
not make any difference. Still no X windows when
rebooting Linux.
If there are any Linux settings I would need to change
- I will need some more clues?
Other suggestions welcome
Thanks
Matt
--- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was Sep 30,
2000, 14:51, when Matt Usselmann
> keyboarded:
>
> >Tried to install 7.0 for the first time. It
> installed
> >ok up to the point where it should configure X
> >Windows. Instead of seeing the "Is this the correct
> >setting?" display, monitor went completely dark.
> >
> >That seems to indicate that the graphics card is
> not
> >supported?!? It is a #9GXE64 (powered by S3 Trio
> 64) -
> >the original card in my 5 year old Dell.
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> When setting up X, there often happens something
> like you describe.
> Happened with me also when I still had the S3 card.
> The way to go is NOT
> to let the setup probe the card, just tell it to use
> conservative settings
> (800x600, 16 bit colors, something like that), make
> sure that things work
> that way when booting, and then gradually go up with
> the requirements upto
> what you want.
> You can bet that a 5 year old card, as common as the
> S3 Trio, is
> supported.
>
> A note: many applications do not like 24bit colors,
> so try to avoid that
> setting.
>
> Paul
>
> --
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> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
>
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