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  From: Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au>
  To  : Kevin Hancock <khan@arcom.com.au>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:49:22 +1030

RE: RE: Changing Video Card - how?

hmmm ... i've had problems with the trident's before in x, not so much with
s3's, but still a good card like a nvida, 3dfx, matrox etc will always be
better ;-)

In redhat you could try Xconfigurator, otherwise to manually step through
everything which is normally the best anyway, try xf86config. xf86config is
pretty much like editing the X config file, only you get asked all the
questions for each step.

Cheers,
Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hancock [mailto:khan@arcom.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 12:26 PM
To: LinuxSA
Subject: Fwd: RE: Changing Video Card - how?



On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Jeremy Ervine wrote:
> It may be a little more help to us if you tell us what type of video card
> you are running. Often many video cards / chipsets often have problems
with
> X, (eg, sis chipsets) and sometimes various cards require special

Just a bog standard Trident 4Mb card, (tried a 4Mb S3 as well) both work Ok
if
installed from start but I had a Tseng Labs 2.5Mb card in when it was
installed and swapping cards dont work so good.

F86Setup is not avaliable for version 7. The latest version rpmfind came up
with was 3.3.6-20. It reccomends the following

XInstall XF86Setup if you have used it before and prefer to keep using
it to configure your X server.  If you do not have a preference for
XF86Setup, you should instead install and use Xconfigurator, Red Hat's
graphical user interface configuration tool for the X Window System.

Have gone back to the old card untill I can sort this out. Is it possible to
manually change the server config?

Kevin
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