On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:44, you wrote: > Ok. The server that you guys helped me with 2 days ago needed a bit of > adjustment. > > I have a Trident ProVidia 9685 (?) card in it and had the resolution set to > 800x600x16. This really wasn't enough for me, so I set it to 1024x768x16.
This is a *server*???? YMMV (extremely, it would seem), but what on earth does one need that kind of resolution for on a server? Most of the ones I administer have either no monitor, no X-windows (although they may have an X-server for remote log-ins), or, if X is running locally a tiny window manager like ICEWM, or TWM etc....) running. However, I digress... > The card appeared to work for a minute, but started freaking out if I had > more than a couple of windows open. I really need that resolution, and I > remembered that I can get it without a problem with my Stealth 64 Vram. I > swapped the card out and figured that X wouldn't start and I could then > fire up Xconfigurator and get my new card working. This didn't happen, X > freaked out and when I finally got it to stop, I found out that there is no > Xconfigurator. I quickly popped the old card in, got back into my system > and attempted to install Xconfigurator, whn I saw no such option in SW > manager. You need to find out which bits of XFree86 you need for the new card. For example, my desktop machine uses a Voodoo3, and has loaded: [root@thang dev]# rpm -qa|grep -i xfree XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-glide-module-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-devel-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-Xnest-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-server-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-libs-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-Xvfb-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-4.1.0-20mdk Note that the glide-module is for *my* card, and wouldn't do anything for an Eagle2SuperPanorama card(!) A quick search reveals that yours is an S3Trio64 chipset, which doesn't look as though its supported under 4.1.0 yet, so you might need to downgrade your XFree to vers 3.3.6 (not a particularly happy scenario...) OTOH, you might decide to live with your current setup.... I also noticed that neither of my nics initialized on this boot, > even though hard drake reports them being there. It had to "run config > tool" to get the nics working, but after that, the connection sharing > wouldn't work. I stopped/restarted all network services, only to find that > connection sharing STILL didn't work. I had to reconfigure it to get it to > work (thus overwriting my dhcpd config file). Now, when I reboot the pc, > the nics don't initialize and I still can't figure out how to change my > video card. Try cat/proc/interrupts /proc/iomem /proc/ioports to see if you've introduced any h/w conflicts - if so, try moving the cards, setting the IRQ etc hth -- john in syd
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