Changing X Server

John Lindinger jilindi at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 24 04:13:55 CDT 2002


Rusty:

Login as root, at the command prompt type

  Xconfigurator

It is the "wizard" for setting up your video card in RedHat. You can allow it to
autodetect (which failed in your case) or select the video card from a list.

John Lindinger

--- Rusty <kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a previous install of a RH 7.2 system to come
> up on new hardware. It works fine from the command line, but
> getting the GUI configured is a bit problematic. Kudzu
> recognized the video card and promptly decided to use the SVGA
> server. This doesn't work with the S3 Virge card in the system.
> It requires the S3 server to work properly. 
> I have the S3 server installed on the system, but I'm not sure
> what to do to get it to pick the right one. Hacking around in
> the xf86config file hasn't served me very well. Any suggestions?
> 
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