When I originally installed 6.1, it detected the correct video card.. I was
using the S3 ViRGE driver. There is no option to disable the onboard video in
the BIOS, only by jumpers on the motherboard, which has been already properly
jumpered for the last year :-)
"PATRICK C. GENTRY" wrote:
> 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]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: video card troubles
> > Resent-Date: 14 Nov 1999 16:56:28 -0000
> > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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