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This has helped me in the past: Knoppix. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Knoppix has always found a nice resolution, and configured X for me. I just copy Knoppix's xf86config file onto the mounted hd's partition, reboot and it all magically works. Samantha On 2003年1月29日, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:25:49PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote: > > X does work in 640x480 but nothing higher. The redhat-config-XFree86 > > tool quits trying to work after trying a few times to start XFree and > > failing. > > I know this doesn't matter much at this point, since your Rawhide X > should work fine, but: > > Does RH ship xf86cfg? > > Also, does X -configure probe to anything higher than 640x480? Even > in VESA modes? > > > But if this doesn't work tomorrow, I'm disabling onboard video (if Dell > > gives me the option...) and slapping in a trusty old S3 PCI card or > > whatever crusty old thing I find in the storage room at the office. > > If it's anything like the old Optiplex I've got, slapping in a video > card will disable the on-board video for you (as slapping in a SCSI > card will disable the on-board IDE, both of which are ever so > logical because, you know, if I've paid for an extra peripheral, I > clearly don't want the one I got with the damn machine). > > -- > gabriel rosenkoetter > gr@eclipsed.net > -Samantha _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug