Well, I got another machine for free so I thought I'd throw on Slack 9.1. Everything seemed fine, but something was not right with my X display. It was mirrored 4 times horizontally... With nothing working, I thought I'd try this: Boot the Live-CD version, which worked perfectly, then copy that XF86Config to my hd. Will this work?

Walter

Probably. It just doesn't work if you take the file from other distros.

Nope, didn't work. Working from Left to right I get about 1/4 of the screen is ok, then it mirrors that part for the other 3/4 of the screen (4 times)... no idea. Why can the Slack Live-CD detect and work perfect but Slack can't?

Walter

Try (as root):
This will create a XF86Config.new in /root. Edit this file to fix anything that wasn't detected and copy it to /etc/X11 (make a backup copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config before overwriting it with .new)

Also, XF86Config is/should be distro-independent, so if you know someone with the same video setup, you should be able to copy their XF86Config file. . .

Have you tried just copying the same contents instead of the file itself...

I havn't tried that, without sounding stupid what's the difference?

Walter

I Did this, but it still does it, only now it only 1 mirror of my screen... It has something do with my monitor, but I just can't get it....

Walter

Here is my XF86Config... Maybe your guys can see something wrong. This worked Perfect on the Live CD.


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 60-120
#DisplaySize 320 240 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "TTX"
ModelName "ab"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "slow_edodram" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_dram" # [<bool>]
#Option "fast_dram" # [<bool>]
#Option "fpm_vram" # [<bool>]
#Option "pci_burst" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_conservative" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_moderate" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_aggressive" # [<bool>]
#Option "pci_retry" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "early_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
#Option "late_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
#Option "lcd_center" # [<bool>]
#Option "set_lcdclk" # <i>
#Option "set_mclk" # <freq>
#Option "set_refclk" # <freq>
#Option "show_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "UseFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "mxcr3afix" # [<bool>]
#Option "XVideo" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "s3virge"
VendorName "S3 Inc."
BoardName "Trio 64 3D"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Walter

Oh well, forget it. I'll use another distro that works for me. I've never had to mess around this much...Thanks for any help.

Walter

Ok, well, I know I said I'd give up, but, it was bugging me too much! So I finally got it working. I copied over XF86Config-fbdev to XF86Config. Changed the line in lilo.conf to vga=791. run 'lilo' and reboot. Now it works perfect. Now it's time to play with Slack!

Walter