[Gllug] FC4 X and Matrox P650

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Mon Sep 26 15:29:51 UTC 2005


Ken Smith wrote:

>Hi – before tear the lid of this system as dig for the problem can anyone
>give me some pointers that might get me going in the right direction please.
>
>The system dual boots FC3/4 among other things. FC3 + X with a Matrox P650
>Video Card works fine with the Vesa driver. I haven't bothered with the
>Matrox proprietary driver yet.
>
>On FC4 X fails to show anything on the screen. Even during install I had to
>resort to the text installer to get it going. X wouldn't show. 
>
>The X Window System is 6.8.1 on FC3 and 6.8.2 on the FC4. The xorg.conf
>generated on FC4 by anaconda was fairly normal but I have replaced it with
>the one from the working FC3 system. Still no joy ;-[
>
>With X running on FC4 (supposedly) the monitor shows some very low scan
>rates. 24 Khz and 65Hz. The log file Xorg.0.log file on the FC4 system does
>not seem to show the Optiquest monitor being detected like the FC3 system's
>logfile does.
>
>Any ideas before I start digging further...
>
> 
>Ken
>
>
>  
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Fixed: xorg-11 version was hosed. Updated today working fine.

Ken
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