Re: [TCLUG:13783] Back again

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote:
> Okay.  It's a Toshiba Satellite 2515 CDS.  The OS (that I installed; whee!)
> is RH 6.1.  The video chip is a Chips & Tech 69000 with 2 MB RAM.  This
> chip is supported under XFree86 3.3.3.  I've got 3.3.5, so it should be
> okay.  Here's what happens:
> I run xf86config.  choose a P/S2 mouse.  choose the keyboard.  choose the
> chip.  choose the monitor.  write the file.  type startx.  Screen strobes
> wildly for about a second then kicks me back to the $ prompt.
> 
> Fatal server error: no valid modes found, it says.
> 
> I have *no* idea what this is stemming from.  The screen flicker makes me
> wonder if it's a resolution thing?  And, though I hate to say it, the chip
> worked under Windows....  However, there's at least one page on the web
> that describes this guy installing RH 5.something on THE EXACT SAME MODEL
> and it worked.  And yes, I tried using his settings.  Same thing.
> 
> I've tried various monitor resolutions, I've tried setting it to a standard
> VGA driver, I've tried configuring it as root.  I've pretty much exhausted
> my store of ideas, which wasn't very big, given that I'm new to this system.
Try XF86Setup instead? heh, sometimes it works.

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