Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit :
Unfortunately, resolution is too low (320x200), so, I can't see the "Cancel" and "Valid" or "OK" button of the system-config-display dialog.
Try again with the resolution parameters like Alan suggested but with lower resolution and "vga", e.g.
system-config-display --set-resolution=640x480 --set-driver=vga
Don't work. Even 320x240 don't work.
Note that I changed "vesa" to "vga" since the card mentions only vga.
Noted.
I don't know if that will work because I see the "insufficient memory" message you mention below. That may be a result of color depth combined with memory limitations. But if it does work, maybe you get going good enough to proceed.
BIOS! That memory thing reminds me. See below.
I think now it's a X server problem as it can't compute modelines for vga module. I get, in Xorg.0.log, many lines as: (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (insufficient memory for mode)
Lines differs in mode value
(II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1200" (insufficient memory for mode)
I know that the 1920x1200 mode is doable.
Have you gone into BIOS and seen what is there that might be affecting this stuff? I know there are often selectable modes for video cards.
There is no selectable video modes in the BIOS.
Often in a laptop, main memory is shared with the video card. If you have not allocated enough memory to the video, maybe that is causing a lot of the problems? If you "system" memory is really small, you may not be able to get decent resolution with higher color resolutions.
System Memory: 1024MB Video Memory: 512MB
We're starting to get close to the end of things I can think of. I hope something works here!
As you can see, nothing work ;-) I'm sure now this is a X server bug, this is why I wanted to try to rebuild xorg. I understand now this isn't reasonable.
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3309 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441065
Regards, Alain