On Sat, 29 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on my third video card.
>>> The first was a radeon.
>>> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with
>>> an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it.
>>> Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one,
>>> I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650.
>>> It was the AGP card I could find.
>>> Knoppix 5.1.0 runs just fine.
>>
>> I tried Xorg -probe
>> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>> just produced a messy screen. No discernable image.
>> Here is /root/xorg.conf.new :
> Not sure exactly where you are going with all of this but you should at
> least start with the default which is no xorg.conf at all - so maybe as
That was one of the first things I tried,
but I'll try it again.
I tried it again. It still didn;t work.
In Xorg.0.log there is a warning that it is using the preferred frequency,
135 MHz, even though it is greater than the maximum frequency, 130 MHz.
How do I tell it not to do that?
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