In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: > | If I don't set any "special features", I am assuming (from the drop-down > | lists supplied) that the driver will probe the card. I suspect it is the > | pobing that is causing the problem. > > I don't think so. That is, if you use 'vim' and don't specify > anything like clock chip, RAMDAC, acceleration, etc, you X should just > attempt to use the most basic communication and hope it works (after > all, you said it would ;-)). If you use XF86Setup or something, then > it probably will probe. Ditch XF86Setup already -- you have a > XF86Config file already so just start hacking it. I found that there > is usually a lot of explanatory comments in the file (actually, I > think I used xf86config instead).
Well, I think I am finally getting somewhere using xf86config. I am now using the S3 drivers. If I don't tell X what the RamDac is, I get the hang. I tried telling it the RamDac was a bt485 (which is what Windows thinks it is), and it didn't start X because it said the RamDac wasn't a bt485. I wonder how I'm going to guess what RamDac I've got? -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trumphurst.com/
