On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:05:06 +0200, P.T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Allan Gould <allang@me.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> the X server won't seem to start. Running xstart comes up with "no
>> screens found".
>
> So the X server is not running?
>
>> At the beginning of the install when it probes, it
>> finds the card, but below that, it says "Probing for monitor type:
>> unable to probe".
>
> Don't worry about it. First get the server running, then worry about
> your monitor. Edit the config file by hand after generating a generic
> one with XFree86 -config or whatever your X config gerenator is or
> uses.
>
>> S3 Trio64 V2/DX (86C775)
>
> I'm not sure that's supported in newer X releases. Look it up in the
> release notes for your X version and change card if not. You can always
> run using the vesa driver anyway.

It should work with the standard SVGA server, there is just no
accellerated server for it in X version 4 (X version 3 had accellerated S3
server for Trio64). So I suspect he just needs to set HorizSync and
VertRefresh for his monitor (or pick one closest to it).

But my old PC with S3 Trio64 died, so I cannot test current Linux versions
on it.

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