YDL - PB 12" and FX Go5200: success

[Thierry de Coulon]

OK, so after a good night sleep I probably had a clearer head and got it to 
work so I'll answer my own mail just in case someone else has the same 
"problem*. Here is what I did:

a) when installing th X setup identifies the card as "Generic OF Compatible". 
As the YDL site said configuration was "automatic" I let it so but I was 
offered only a resolution of 1400x900. I also found that the installer 
actually uses "fbdev" but sets no "Modes" values.
This resulted in a non-working X config but I must say YDL deals very well 
with this: it tries a few times, asks if you'd like to run some config tool 
that fails, then you get a prompt to log in.

b) I did an apt-get upgrade and a yum upgrade. I don't think this brings 
anything but I mention it. yum at least said there was no package to upgrade 
(from 3.0.1).

c) I went to /etc/X11 and fired pico to modify XF86Config, basing on an Nvidia 
config from Debian and changed the following:

Section  "Device"
	Identifier         "GeForce FX Go5200"
	Driver              "nv"
        Option              "FlatPanel"
        Vendor Name    "Nvidia"
        BoardName       "GeForce FX Go5200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier         "Screen0"
        Device             "GeForce FX Go5200"
	Monitor            "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    16

       Subsection       "Display"
                   Depth               16
                   Modes              "1024x768"
       EndSubsection

EndSection       

d) just run startx and that was it.

Thierry

-- 
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.