Can't seem to get Xwindow-trident 9680 to work

[J-linuxnewbie]

I am using red hat 7.1 and installing on a 9166,64MBram, trident 9680 video w/2m video mem, and an IBM 8518 Monitor. I've used superprobe and l -probeonly to get the info on the trident, but after entering it in xconfigurator I get the configuration wrong error. The configurator picks up the trident card and selects XF86_SVGA as the server with a default as the Xfree4 driver.

I tried to bypass the test and do a startx, but I got a message that said fatal server error: "no mode for 640x480".

Does this mean the xf86_svga is corrupted, or needs a newer version?

[optech]

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