On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Wolfcale wrote: >I have a new Dell 2350 with integrated Intel 845 G/GL Video and >RH 8.0. After checking various newsgroups and help sites, the >consensus seemed to be that the BIOS video RAM setting must be >increased from the default 1 MB before Xfree 4.2.x.x will work.
Intel i845 is completely unsupported in Red Hat Linux 8.0. You require CVS XFree86 for this to work. >However, Dell does not provide that option in the BIOS. Dell >did recently release a BIOS upgrade which allows a PCI card to >be used so I have upgraded the BIOS and installed a ATI Xpert >128 PCI video card. The card detects correctly but I get the >error: > >Couldn't start X server, etc. >*ddcprobe returns bogus values: >ID: none >Name: none >etc. > >and finally, > >Error, cannot start X server. > >I notice that if I reload the box from scratch it still tries to >probe the integrated video chip and I wonder if this error is >related to it probing the wrong device? > >If someone can tell me what to vi I would be very grateful--I >have been working on this box since Christmas! All ATI Rage 128 hardware should work out of the box. Just run: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig Assuming you've disabled the onboard video, it should just work without fuss. Hope this helps, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
