Re: XF86Config/Drivers
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/21/05
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:54:39 -0500
On 21 Jun 2005 06:35:45 -0700, synex staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
I know that @#$%ing Google excuse for a Usenet client doesn't make it
easy, but it's considered good manners to include some context from
previous articles when you post to Usenet.
[ synex had problems getting X running on a Riva TNT card ]
> Anyway, I'm using RedHat 8.0
That's a really, really old Redhat. You probably want something newer;
they've fixed a few bugs and improved a lot of programs. Fedora Core 4
is the latest Redhat-like distro if you like the way Redhat does things.
> but as for XFree86 I have no idea.
"X -version" (always) or "xdpyinfo | grep version" (if X is running)
will tell you this.
> Ok, so I tried putting in "nv" as the driver - but no luck. Though it
> did take me to a blue screen, which basically said that it couldnt
> config the display
Weird. Redhat 8 is ancient, but they were using one of the early 4.n
XFree86 releases. All those should've worked with a Riva TNT and the nv
X module. Unless... ISTR something about problems with 4.0.n and some
TNT cards, but that was so long ago I may be misremembering.
> that point to select a Riva TNT and that seems to have worked - I'm
> now in the GUI, and things seem fine. I'm not concerned about 3D
> accel, more in learning how to work with XF86Config
? You typically generate the X config file (now called xorg.conf, since
everybody switched to Xorg for various reasons about 1.5 years ago) with
X -config or a pointy-clicky GUI. You then make a backup copy of that
config file and edit that config file with your favorite text editor.
(Note: there are 2 text editors, vim and emacs. Learn one, learn it
well, and you'll be able to edit text anywhere.) Most X modules have
man pages; "man i810" will tell you all the options you can put in the
Device section of the X config file, for example. There's also a
general man page in "man xorg.conf" ("man XF86Config" for people still
using XFree86) but it's kind of abstract and may confuse you.
> I'm wondering why though, at the point it takes me to the config GUI
> (where it lets me select a card), and it's able to give me a decent
> resolution, why it can't just go with the driver it's using?
It's almost certainly using the VESA module at that point. VESA always
works, but it's A) slow B) lacking useful extensions like XV C) locked
to 60Hz vertical refresh. Point C tends to make people's eyeballs hurt
if they're using a CRT, and points A and B frustrate people who want to
do anything more with the GUI than running a few xterms.
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