Very Computer

Hey there
i installed Red hat 4.0 on my pentium 133, with 1 Gb HD, 8x CD, 64Mb ram,
ALliance semiconductors AT24 graphics card, and Evervision 14" monitor.

Yay! Linux works.
XFree86 does not.

here's the startup mssg.

XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000)
Operating System: Linux
Configured drivers:
  SVGA: server for 8-bit colour SVGA (Patchlevel 0):
      et4000, et4000w32, et4000w32i, et4000w32p, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00,
      wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, vgawonder,
      tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga9000, clgd5420,
      clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434,
      clgd5436, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e,
      cpq_avga, oti067, oti077, oti087, mx, al2101, ali2228, ali2301,
      ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7,
      ct65520, ct65530, ct65540, ct65545, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv,
      realtek, generic
(using VT number 7)

XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Generic SVGA"
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Generic Monitor"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
(--) SVGA: chipset:  generic
(--) SVGA: videoram: 64k
(--) SVGA: clocks:  25.18
SVGA: Too little memory for virtual resolution 800 600

 *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.***

Fatal server error:
no screens found

<<end>>
this means that timing  values, chipset etc is wrong     yes?

i have no idea where to look for that sort of information, monitor and card
came with no manual

Is it worth upgrading to RedHat 6?

Last silly question.

I have my CD drive mounted on /cdrom
the kernel detected it and it mounted properly,  but how do i access it?
whats the analogue of the "d:" dos command??

THanks heaps for any help
CHeers

Waza_

It looks like you ran the config program and it set your card to generic.  
It lists 64K VideoRam which won't get you much.  I would say, you would
definitely benefit by going to www.cheapbytes.com or www.linuxmall.com and
getting a cheap RH 6.2.  That will give you lots of things, among them a
much newer XFree86.  The XFree on RH 4.0 may not support your card.  You
could upgrade XFree, but it really would be better to get a newer RH.  

The problem listed here is the lack of VideoRam, but I imagine your card has
much more than 64K.  You need at least version 3.3.3 of XFree and you might
as well go to 3.3.6 which I think is what is on RH 6.2.  Don't upgrade to
version 4.0 of XFree yet.  It is still buggy I think.

To go to the cdrom:

mount /cdrom
cd /cdrom
ls

To get off of it:
cd <---puts you back to either /root or /home/<username>
umount /cdrom

You may find some monitor info in one of these:

http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz/monitor-timings.html
http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html
http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html
http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitor.html

Anita

It sounds like the driver that you are trying to use doesn't recognize
your video card correctly.  It thinks that you only have 64k videoram.
That is not enough ram to do anything more than mono.  So, most likely
you need an updated driver for that card to work.

And since you are using such an old version of Redhat, you might as well
just go through the process of upgrading to 6.2.

Micah