Re: video trouble

anti@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dushan Mitrovich) wrote in
news:Cg4nE5aAHkTV092yn@xxxxxxxxx:

I seem to have hit upon an inexhaustible fount of obstacles. Here's
my latest - just the highlights.

A week or so ago my SNAP video driver demo expired, so I D/L'ed (after
many tries - a separate story) a specific SNAP driver for my video
chip, and followed the simple instructions. Everything looked fine,
the SNAP splash screen displayed... then a message 'Invalid Scan
Frequency', and the screen went black, and stayed that way.

I finally booted in single-user mode and checked xorg.conf to see if
some parameters were out of whack. They weren't, but selecting
known-good va- lues didn't help. I looked at several other files but
couldn't recognize anything that looked suspicious. Then I D/L'ed the
glint driver (for my 3DLabs Permedia 2 chip) and tried to install it,
but that failed because of unresolved dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) and xorg-x11-server-Xorg. From what I could tell
these totalled about 20 MB in size, with no guaran- tee they were the
end of the dependency line.

I know I can re-install yet again, but before I do, is there something
simple I've missed that I should try first? Thanks.

- Dushan Mitrovich



Try checking the scanlines in you XF86Config file (either in home or
/etc/X11 under linux (?) You want to make sure that the numbers dont
exceed your video card settings for vertical and horizontal sync you can
see what the lines numbers mean from man 5 svgalib.conf. You need the
manual for your card and monitor for this. *Never* thow out these
manuals if you want to run linux - you really need them.

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