It was Sep 30, 2000, 19:36, when Matt Usselmann keyboarded:
>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.
When you run Xconfigurator, you have to select these lower values. You
can, indeed, not change the settings through the Bios.
Select the settings when setting up X-Windows. Sorry if I was unclear.
Paul
>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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