Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro
I did at your suggestion. And it worked - thanks.
I now have a display, although low res and distorted.
Another person suggested it was probably sync rates -
so, my monitor is a Compaq Presario MV500.
I've been to their web page and can find no specifics
on horizontal and verticle refresh rates. Can anyone
help?
On 25 May 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:35, Russ Cook wrote:
> > I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's
> > windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine).
> > I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but
> > could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro.
> >
> > The sympton is that when I run startx, the screen goes black.
> > It doesn't fault out and return to text mode - it just remains
> > black. I've identified the window manager to use, and have tried
> > changing the window manager. I've attached the XFree86 log file.
> >
> > I have XWindows successfully running on another machine, with
> > a different video card.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Have you tried "XFree86 -configure" then "XFree86 -xf86config <whatever
> it called the resultant file>" as root?
>
> This was the only way I got XFree86 4.2 to talk sense to the ATI Rage
> 128 Ultra TF in the Dell Optiplex GX240 at work.
>
> Take care,
>
> Peter.
>
> --
> Peter Whysall
> peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc
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> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
>
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