On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:02:03PM -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to linux -- i've been fooling around with
> mandrake 8.2 on an old pentium 166 machine for few months now.
> Anyway, i just got a decent deal on a new dell dimension 2300
> computer, so I bought it and decided to install mandrake 9.0.
> Everything seemed to install fine except for the video stuff
> for x. I can boot up and do all the command-line stuff, but
> when I attempt to startx, it gives me an error saying
> "Screen(s) found but none have a valid configuration" and
> aborts. The video card is supposedly "Integrated Intel Extreme
> 3D Graphics". Anybody have any experience with this? Any
> suggestions?
First off, I am not sure what the "Mandrake-way" to do things is.
I think that you need to find out what the video chipset is. Its
quite possible that the video chipset is the Intel 845g chipset.
I have the i845g in my Compaq workstation, and its not yet
completely supported in X (or in the kernel for some of the other
functions). You should be able to get it to work using VESA
compatability mode. If you use a GUI to configure X, set the
driver to "vesa". Or if you edit /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4]
directly, try puttting the line:
Driver "vesa"
under Section "Device" .
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