Help configuring X server

[nuttyvishal4u]

Hi

I have installed RH8 on IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 Server. The problem i am facing is during the installation the video drivers are detected automatically which is S3 Savage 62V2 (Generic). The installation process goes fine in full graphical mode. Now in X- confuguration process if i select the same drivers & test the settings, it gives wierd display.
What is the problem?
My server works fine in text mode. After installation also if i try start the X server it gives wierd display.
Can anyone help me in solving this problem?
The Server specifications are as follows....

IBM Netfinity 5500 M20
1 GB RAM
Video Ram 1MB
Graphics card S3 savage 64v2/ GX

Waiting for reply

Regards
Vishal

[blizz]

Hi,

What do you mean by "wierd display" ?

btw-
X does not affect the way graphical windows on your screen look
X is NOT a GUI (Graphical User Interface)

[nuttyvishal4u]

When i installed RH7.2 on the same server and try to start X server it shows 5 login blurred windows that too at the top of screen then the server hung. The server wasnt responding at all. I had to reboot it. I tried X-configurator with various color depths & resolutions. Every time i had to reboot the server
For RH8 it gives error starting the server & starts the server in console mode only.
If the setup happens in Full GUI mode then what is the problem starting the server in GUI Mode?

[jdctx]

You may need to edit the xconfig manually.

first just enter the comand
xinit if that works and you get a real generic x interface test kde with the command
startkde if that works great you know x and kde are ok get out x run xinit again this time test gnome with the command
gnome-session.

if xinit does not work then attempt I would attempt following

for to make things more simple go ahead and run XConfigurator

chose no probe and select the video ram mb that matches your card ram

If your monitor is capable of svga then choice the simpliest generic svga

I thing its something like

generic svga 800x600 at 56hz

for your resolution option select just one but nothing greater then
800x600. do not use in the far right column ie 24bit or true color.

save and give that a go.

If that does not work then you can manual edit both

/etc/X11/XConfig and /etc/X11/XConfig-4 using vi or emacs

your looking for somthing in both that says
Section "Device"
Identifier "something identifing video card"
Driver "its driver"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

keep identifier as is
change driver to "svga"
you should be able to keep busid

if you want you can run
XFree86 -scanpci to verify

save exit give it a go again

if that doesn't work you can change "svga" to "vga" but then you will also need to change the monitor to a bare bone generic vga. you could just run Xconfigurator to have it put the generic vga entry and the min 480x600 8bit entry

[nuttyvishal4u]

RH8 doesnt have XConfigurator.
What do to?

[nuttyvishal4u]

There are no files XConfig & XConfig-4 in /etc/X11....

[jdctx]

exit out completely and logon as root

I have had issue when su to root still didn't allow for me to run XConfigurator


in any event run just run

setup

you tab down to where it say X Configuration or X setup or something like that. click ok and run through the setup. IN the end it will allow you to test the configuration

If you don't have and XConfig or XConfig-4 in /etc/X11 you may never had set it up.

[nuttyvishal4u]

I logged in to the system as normal user and run setup. It then ask for root password. In the tools windows there are following tools
Authentication Configuration
Firewall Configuration
Keyboard Configuration
Mouse Configuration
Network Configuration
Printer Configuration
Timezone Configuration

There is nothing like XConfiguration..

[DMR]

In Redhat 8.0 the Xconfigurator utility has been replaced with the following:

redhat-config-xfree86

Type that at the command line to start the utility.

The actual configuration file is:

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
or
/etc/X11/XF86Config

When running commands or looking for filenames, remember that Linux is case-sensitive.