On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > x...@lists.killian.com composed on 2015-01-15 18:40 (UTC-0800): > >> I've got an old 1U server running openSUSE 13.2 which comes with Xorg >> 7.6_1. Most of the time it is headless, but I would like to be able to use >> X occasionally. Unfortunately out of the box the X server crashes. > >> The Monitor is a Dell 2001 FP, which is natively 1600x1200, but since this >> is over a D-sub connector, I need to use 1024x768 (probably 60Hz, or maybe >> 75Hz). > > Why is that so? > > My Dell 2000FP, which is natively 1600x1200, made January 2003, does all > supported modes over both D-sub and DVI using various ATI, Intel & Nvidia > gfxchips newer than yours. I don't have any Mach64 cards I could try though.
A lot of mach64 server chips only had 2 or 4 MB of vram. Not enough for 1600x1200. > >> This works fine in the OS install and GRUB2, but Xorg just crashes after >> the newly installed system boots. I am looking for suggestions on xorg.conf.d >> entries that will make it work. I have tried a lot of things, including using >> the vesa driver and ati driver, > > I dont' know that mach64 was ever supported by the "ati" driver. A mach64 > driver is on the mirrors, and almost certainly requires KMS be disabled. > The ati driver is a wrapper that loads either radeon, r128, or mach64 depending on the pci id. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
