Try 640x480 in the Modes section and see if it works (just guessing!).

Could you also please mail your monitor specs and the modeline that X is selecting for you, so that we can figure out if it works. You can get the modeline by saving the X startup screen to a disk file.

Rgds,

Krishnan

--- Parul Mathur parulmat@rediffmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I have found out the details of my display card:

Graphics Card: Cyrix XpressGraphics Manufacturer: Cyrix Corporation Driver Software version: 4.10.01.1207

The video RAM is 2560 kB (note the extra zero). Earlier I had mentioned this as 256 kB RAM - I'm sorry.

My CPU is Cyrix MediaGX MMX Enhanced 233 MHz.

While looking for help on google I found this:

http://www.exocore.com/linux/section.php?section=Xwindow#Xwindow_id7

Accordingly, I modified the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows:

--------------------/etc/X11/XF86Config-4------------

<snip>

Section "Device" # no known options Identifier "Cyrix XpressGraphics" Driver "cyrix" VendorName "Cyrix Corporation" BoardName "Generic VGA compatible" VideoRam 2496 Chipset "mediagx" #BusID EndSection

Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Cyrix XpressGraphics" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 8

Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" EndSubsection

EndSection

<snip>

-----------------------------------------------------

After this, when I typed "startx" at the command prompt, the screen turned green and after a minute the monitor got hung.

I think that I am nearly there and the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file needs a final tweak to get X working. I know that there are several Cyrix users on this mailing list. I'll be very grateful if one of them could send me his/her relevant portion of the XF86Config file.

Thank you.

Parul

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