The onboard video is disabled in the BIOS? What driver did you use before
your monitor went out?
Patrick
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote:
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:52:17 -0500
> From: Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: video card troubles
> Resent-Date: 14 Nov 1999 16:56:28 -0000
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> Recently, my monitor died, so I had to use my backup 14" monitor to
> temporarily replace it. Now, normally, I could just use Xconfigurator
> and change the resoultion from 1024x768 to 800x600. Unfortunately,
> Xconfigurator does not probe the right video card. I have an ASUS SP97V
> motherboard that has onboard video, yet it is disabled, and I am using a
> Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 w/4M VRAM. Xconfigurator detects the onboard
> video chipset instead of the actual video card :-( Thus, I sent off to
> manually run xf86config. I picked the correct video card, and the
> correct monitor specs, and attempted to use the S3 ViRGE driver (which
> is the correct driver for my video card chipset). I chose the 800x600
> video mode in 24-bit color (this works fine in Win98). When I attempt
> to start X, it starts in 320x200 or some odd resolution. I then
> attempted to just use the SVGA driver instead of the S3 ViRGE driver.
> This gave the error:
>
> There is no mode definition named "800x600"
>
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
>
> I tried doing this in all color depths:
> startx -bpp 8/16/24
>
> all of which resulted in the same error.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening, and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
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