🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:13:17 +0930, Nigel Sweetman (NetGamer_au) wrote:
>I have the following card:
>S3 Trio3D/2X AGP 8MB (86C368)
>
>(I am a novice to the world of linux)
>
>I installed RH6.0. X Windows does not work.
>
>My video card does not work with it. I got it to work but in an unbelieve
>low resolution.
>
>Has anyone got any ideas regarding how to fix my problem? I have read that
>an updated XFree86 would help. Could someone tell me step by step how to
>update the files. I have all necessary files for version 3.6 but cant seem
>to unzip them and or use them. I gunziped them (.tgz) and it left a .tar.
>Tar wouldnt then work.
>
>I really need some help here. I have wasted to mush time here.
>

To upgrade XFree86 on RedHat, you should use the rpms from www.redhat.com. I
did this same upgrade.  Actually it did nothing for my system and may not
for yours either.  If you have very low resolution, the problem could well
be your monitor settings.  Check in /etc/X11/XF86Config and look under
Monitor to see if the horiz and vert syncs are right.  If you have put
Generic Monitor in, then that is the problem.  There are places to find
these settings if you need them.  Try doing this and post the results:
First exit from X.  Then do:

startx &>startxlog

Post what is in startxlog.

Now about upgrading X.  Do this first:

rpm -qa | grep XFree

This will give you a list of what you have.  Then get those packages in
version 3.3.6 and put them in a fresh directory.  Then go to that directory
as root and do 
rpm -Uvh XFree*

This should load them all in the right order so that you don't get
dependancy errors.

Here are the packages I have.  I never did upgrade the fonts, but I have
true type fonts in a directory on linux and that seems to work fine.

$ rpm -qa |grep XFree

XFree86-S3V-3.3.6-11
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-11
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-11
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.6-11
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.6-11
XFree86-3.3.6-11
XFree86-libs-3.3.6-11

You only need one of the servers, the one you use.  I was supposed to use
SVGA, which is why I got it, but turned out I had to use S3V.  I have S3
86C385.  

Anita