Could you go to the log /var/log/XFree86.0.log and post it as well as the XF86Config 
(resp
XF86Config-4 if X is mixed up) which the log tells you it is using
by the way check the specs of your monitor just in case you are getting too high a 
refresh rate...

Lionel
--- Diego Cardinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lionel Lecoq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Newbie]RedHat 7.3, S3 Trio64V+ and Sampo Alphascan 411:
> monitor turns off if I try 24 bit mode
> 
> 
> > You may get the same result without going back to 6.2 by forcing the
> install program to select X
> > 3.3.6 (I believe there is a preferx3 or something like that in the conf
> parms) This is what I did
> > for an antique laptop with RH 7.2, it runs nice and accelerated with X
> 3.3.6 and hideously slow
> > with 4.1 and vesa...
> > You could have a look in /usr/X11R6/bin to see whether there are a few
> XF86_whatever (these being
> > the 3.3.6 servers) if there is one you recognise as you old friend (often
> XF86_SVGA possibly
> > XF86_S3) Then it suffices to change /etc/X11/X from a symlink to
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (the X
> > 4.x.x server) to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_whatever and to ask Xconfigurator to
> generate the apropriate
> > XF86Config
> >
> > Lionel
> I checked the X link, and it actually goes to XF86_S3!!!! I tried XF86_SVGA,
> but I had the same horrible result: at 800x600 24 bit I get my monitor
> turned off...
> Diego
> 
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