Video Card problem

[Kimball Larsen]

Having just messed with X quite a bit (and managing to succeede a bit in
my endeavor for faster responsiveness of the gui on my Lombard), I have
a couple of suggestions...

The first is that you re-run the Xconfigurator application and choose a
lower resolution/color depth.  I would suggest trying 640X480 X 256
colors, just to see if it works... if it does then you can derive
several things:

1)  your video card is found by X and should work in a higher mode
2)  You need to go to XFree86.org and read what they have to say about
your card:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/index.html

Just find the model/manufacturer there and dig in the docs a bit to find
out what you need to do.

Uhmm... Also, keep in mind that I am pretty new to this stuff as well,
so I might be waaaaayyy off, but at least it's a starting point for
you..

Good Luck!

-Kimball Larsen




On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 11:51, FB Eye wrote:
> 
> Hello 8)
> 
> This is my very first post on this list and I'm such a newbie to the world of Linux, so please bare with me:
> 
> 1. I have an AGP 400mhz Graphite G4 with an Nvidia GeForce 2MX video card that was swapped from a Quicksilver 733mhz G4 (card works flawlessly in both OS 9 and X). My monitor is a 21" Viewsonic P815
> 
> 2. I easily and succesfully completed the installation of YDL 2.2 on my secondary internal IDE drive.
> 
> 3. While in the setup portion of the installation, I configured my sceen resolution to the same one I use in OS 9 or X, that being 1152x862 + I identified my monitor correctly.
> 
> 4. I can easily boot into Linux with no problems and so far so good. I selected the text login option, and when i type "startx" to get KDE going (after login in correctly), i get this error message:
> 
> (EE) FBDEV (0): weight given (000) is inconsistent with the dept (32)
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
> 
> .....
> 
> Fatal server error.
> no screens found
> 
> What the hell have I  done wrong? Have I selected a wrong sceen resolution? If this rez is supported in OS 9 or X, why does Linux refuse to use it? Anyway, how can I fix this and have KDE running in full 1152x862 glory?
> 
> Thank you so much 8-)
> Cheers!!!
> 
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