On 12/21/08, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 17:11 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote: >> Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit : >> >> > You ought to be able to get at least VESA stuff. >> >> In xorg.conf, if I replace vga by vesa for driver, and if I try to startx, >> it >> failed and I get the following (incomplette) message: >> >> (EE) VESA(0): No matching modes >> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. >> >> As my default xorg.conf was created with pyxf86config, there is no mode >> neither modelines defined. >> >> > As root, from a console in run level 3 (telinit 3), try >> >> I'm in this run level since installation. >> >> > system-config-display >> >> I tried this, but as it is running in a 320x200 vga mode, I can't see a >> lot of >> things. I think I see less than a quarter of the dialog window. > > Time for extreme measures. At boot prompt, add to the end of the kernel > line, via the grub edit facility "vga=ask", IIRC. > > I can't find the kernel parameters docs on my system ATM, so this is a > guess from memory. Maybe I need kernel development to get those notes? > > Anyway, that should give you a list of pre-defined modes, numeric. > Google before you do this and get a list of possible ones. I would pick > the 1024x768 as a first try. IIRC another is 800x640. There's a > 1240x1076(?) I think too. IIRC, vga=ask will do it, otherwise pick one like vga=0x317, and it will prompt if invalid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions jerry -- To be named later.