Re: XF86Config

[Sumantra Roy <sumantra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have just installed Linux from the March issue of PCQ, and I'm facing the
same problem in configuring X. Surprising thing is, I have a configuration
similar to Gerry's - a PII 350 with 64 MB Ram. What happens in my case is
that the first screen of KDE comes, and then the screen changes to show
some weird stripes, showing that it's crashed. I have a Trident 3dimage 975
video card with 4 MB of Ram, and a Microtek 15 inch SVGA colour Monitor
with a horizontal frequency range of 30-56 KHz, and a vertical frequency
range of 50 -120 Hz, and a max. resolution of 1280x1024. Like Gerry, I
tried to use SuperVGA @56KHz, but it didn't work.

As Arun had suggested, I checked my /var/log/messages file, but couldn't
find anything useful. Also, as Gerry had written, Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't work,
and neither does Ctrl+Alt+Bkspace. The only option is to reboot the computer.

Please help us solve this problem. Without a GUI, life is no fun at all.

>I have installed RH6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15.I am not able to get the GUI working.
>
>I have a Pixelview combo TV plus.This has a Cirrus Logoc 5446 chip and this
>gets detected at the time of installation, It is also listed in the
>database of cards. I have a Philips 14" SVGA Colour Monitor
>withResoloutions from 640x480 VGA mode Hor.Freq.:31.5 Vert.Freq: 60  Non
>interlaced, 800x600 VESA/56 mode, Hor.Freq.:35.2 Vert.freq. 56 Non
>Interlaced and 1024x768 XGA mode,Hor.freq: 35.5 and Vert.freq:87 Interlaced.
>
>Whenever I "startx" I get the first screen of Gnome/KDE and my system
>hangs. No amount of Ctrl+Alt+ F1...F6,<- works.I have to use the reset
>button. 
>I have used 'xf86config', 
>1. I have used Horizantal Sync range 31.5-35.2,SuperVGA @56Hz and vertical
>Sync as 50-90
>
>2.I have tried using the Xf86_SVGA server using resoloutions of 640x480 and
>800x600 but I have the same problem.
>
>I have tried the Xf86_VGA16 server and it works but all the icons,fonts etc
>are so huge I cannot read anything and this is of no practical use.
>
>How do I use the Xf86_SVGA server to work.
>
>Note: I was able to use RH5.2 with KDE from PCQ on my
>P60,32MbRAM,2.1GBHDD.I am now using a PII350 with 64MBRAM and the same HDD
>and I just cannot get to use the GUI ,ditto for RH5.2 of PCQ.
>
>Thanks,
>Gerry Mascarenhas
>
>
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