Convince me that Yellowdog is the Linux for me!

[Kimball Larsen]

Ok, bear with me... I've never tried to configure X manually before....
In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I see the following:


Section "Device"

  ### Available Driver options are:
  Identifier      "Card0"
  #Option         "UseFBDev"
  Option          "XaaNoSolidBresenhamLine"
  Driver          "ati"
  VendorName      "ATI"
#  BusID                "PCI:0:17:0"
EndSection

>From your file contents below, I can easily tell that you have the rage
128 mobility chipset... I have a different one:

ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro

How can I find out what values I should set for the driver, chipset,
vendorname, and busid like you did?

Oh, and is there something besides Xconfigurator that I can use to
configure X11?

Thanks!


-Kimball Larsen 

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 21:14, Romain Kang wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:30:48PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> > Hmm.. time cat /etc/termcap takes 28.36 seconds for me inside a regular
> > shell... 
> 
> Hmm, so would that be gnome-terminal or xterm?  Anyone who's used
> a good x86 distro would probably find that painfully slow.  On my
> iceBook 500, "time cat /etc/termcap" rounded to the nearest 0.1
> seconds reports:
> 	2.3s	xterm
> 	1.4s	rxvt
> 	0.6s	gnome-terminal
> 
> > What can I do to improve X even more?  You mention that before you fixed
> > your X configuration, this command took a long time.  What did you fix?
> 
> In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, you may see a section that begins
> 	Section "Device"
> and has the lines
> 		Option "ShadowFB"      "true"
> 		Option "fbdev"         "/dev/fb0"
> 		Driver "fbdev"
> 
> I changed them to instead say
> 		Driver          "r128"
> 		Chipset         "ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI)"
> 		VendorName      "ATI"
> 		BusID   "PCI:0:16:0"
> 
> Obviously, this won't work unless that's your actual hardware.  If
> you save your XF86Config-4 and run one of the standard XFree86
> configurators, that should get you closer to the correct 
> "Device" declarations.
> 
> Romain
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