[H-GEN] X Troubles

[Frank Brand]

Frank Brand wrote:

> Conor Cunningham wrote:
>
> > Gidday World,
> >             I've recently downgraded my system to Redhat 4.2 for reasons
> > hidden within. I've had troubles getting X up and running. It is an old
> > machine with 1MG vid ram. Tis 640 x 480 8 bit display. Below is the error
> > message I get when I run X. Any help would be lovely
> >
> > (**) FontPath set to
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> > (--) SVGA: clgd5426: Specifying a Clocks line makes no sense for this
> > driver
> > SVGA: 'clgd5426' is an invalid chipset
> >  *** None of the configured devices were detected.***
> >
>

CL 5426 is definately a supported card. What were you trying to upgrade to?

Red Hat errata says there was a problem with X Configurator and 5.1

I have also found a bit of a wrinkle with 5.2 where XConfigurator

seems to pass over a screen that sets resolutions to be run. I have found

that if you back up a few screens you can get to it and set resolutions and

colour depth properly.

--
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
Home Page: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand




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