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 -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/