On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Something funny happened to the Mandrake 8 setup.  The X configuration files
> got messed up in a major way.  They both got updated by Drake and my old
> copies were zeroed out.  The system no longer does any better than 640x480.
> My video card (ATI Radeon) is no longer specified in the file.   I tried
> using HardDrake to select it, but the program hangs after I click on the
> Radeon entry.  Another odd thing - I'm not sure where the video driver
> modules have gone.  I have another system, also running Mandrake 8, which has
> them under /usr/X11R6/modules/drivers, but this tree was totally missing on
> the afflicted system.  I copied it over to the messed-up system, but that
> didn't fix the HardDrake hang behavior.

Maybe try "XFree86 -configure".

> Another thing puzzles me:  the hosed-up system has both the XF86Config and
> XF86Config-4 files in the /etc/X11 directory.  It's my understanding that X
> should be using the "-4" file and only using the old one if the first one
> isn't present.  I tried copying the XF86Config-4 file from the Mandrake 9.1

Look at XF86Config(5) man page. It shows which configs are used first.
(Strace may show you too.)

> partition (when booting that, the video worked fine- and being on the same
> machine, the hardware's the same, so shouldn't this work?) but it changed
> nothing.

Maybe different XFree86 version?


   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/


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