Troubleshooting X

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:13, Stephen Andert wrote:
> I am trying generic monitor at 800x600 and I know that both my monitor and 
> video card can handle several steps more than that.  The "No devices 
> detected" error makes me think it is something whong in the setup.
> 
> What really bugs me is that the install is gui and somehow it autodetects 
> that, but can't do it to get X running after the install shuts down.
> 
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you are over analyzing it.

install works in a generic vesa mode which really isn't what you want to
use if you can avoid it.

The concept is to use the redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig which will
allow you to pick it all over again and see if it works.

I have had some motherboards with integrated video and the like and they
don't seem to work well unless I add a boot up modifier such as
linux=biosirq which then apparently allows linux some compatibility with
plug 'n play hardware. This may be the type of thing that you need to do
with your hardware. The way I got my Shuttle S40G working was to get on
google <http://www.google.com/linux> and search for the motherboard and
it turned out that the instructions that I needed to make it work with
linux were returned within the first 10 results.

YMMV

Craig