Very Computer

Hello everybody
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    As a new linux user, I enthusiastically bought Red Hat 5.0 to work
with my AMD K6 233 computer. Hurricane distribution.

    Unfortunately, this great operating system never worked with my
machine and I am still sticked to stinky Windows 95. The
problem is, I am sure the following: Xwindows doesn't recognises my PCI
graphics card S3 Virge DX chipset. I keep receiving
some 'Xserver is going down, No such graphics server' when trying to
launch X with startx command.

    I am now sure that DX chipset is not recognized by S3V Xserver.

My question is therefore the following: does anybody knows how I could
do to fix this bug, I would have liked to force the
installation of SVGA server but my knowledge in linux is so little......
This was made impossible for me because the redhat
installer, once a S3 graphics detected automatically installs S3V
server.

If you can verbosely (I am a beginner) explain to me how to install SVGA
instead of S3V server either how to make linux work
with S3V and a DX S3 virge i would be grateful

Mucha thanks a lot

                        Christophe

Hi

I have the same svga card. My monitor is a CTX and about 6 years old. The
X-server had a problem with the resolution. The monitor couldn`t handle the
frequentie at what the card was set. I told the X-server I had a 640x480
monitor at 60Hz or something and it would work.
Try different resolutions and frequencies.
Good luck.
If you get it fixed, I would appreciate your solution.