From: "Paul Ranson" 

I think all the basic video chipset stuff comes from XFree86 for both BSD
and Linux. There's probably some interesting architecture to understand in
there...

It'll be essentially similar in both Mandrake and Red Hat, although I can
believe that one will handle it better than the other.

Paul

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3de64392$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Okay, this clearly stinks way worse than Mandrake, so I'm just going to
> call
> > this a failure and not touch RedHat again in two or three years. A few
> years
> > ago I had similar problems with RedHat, but I thought it would have
gotten
> > better in that respect - obviously I was wrong.
>
> It has gotten better, just not better enough, and all the distributions
can
> have this problem with some chipsets...
>
> Video config is probably the biggest problem with Linux.  I wonder if any
of
> the BSD's are any better...
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
>
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:3de641ca$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Soooo,
> >
> >
> > went and bought a RH package ('cause I wanted the manuals in print), and
> > started installing. We had an extra Dell box, so I used that one. In
goes
> > the first cd, and installation starts. The installer recognized the
> monitor
> > (flat panel) perfectly, and display adapter (intel 854 something)... and
> > then said "no display mode available".
> >
> > Okey-dokey, ditch the panel and start over again with another, more
> "normal"
> > monitor. Install went fine, again it recognized the monitor (iiyama
> > something) correctly, and installed everything.
> >
> > But then the display was set so what looked like 640x480 resolution,
which
> > was a bit difficult because the configuration window was higher than
that,
> > so the buttons were below the bottom of the screen. Anyone seen that
> before
> > (hint: it has been bothering Windows for ages)? Well, no problem, right:
> > just make the window smaller by dragging the top border down, and then
> move
> > the whole window up to get the buttons on screen.
> >
> > Bu wait! The window *cannot*be*resized*from*the*top*border!
Unbelievable!
> > Who the fuck thought that I could not resize that windo, huh? What a
> genious
> > idea.
> >
> > Well, anyways, I managed to move the window around to get the buttons.
So,
> > change the resolution and restart the x-window thing (wow, ain't that a
> > modern approach, having to restart the stupid thing), and hey presto -
the
> > same low resolution again.
> >
> > So, changed it again, double-checking the settings, and restarted the
> whole
> > machine just to make sure. This time, the display comes up as text-only,
> > with an error message that is gibberish - none of the characters are
> right.
> > But there are two buttons, of which one has two and the other three
> > characters, so those must be yes and no. Hit enter, hoping the defaults
> are
> > okay, and bang! systems restarts and says it cannot start x-windows at
> all.
> >
> > Okay, this clearly stinks way worse than Mandrake, so I'm just going to
> call
> > this a failure and not touch RedHat again in two or three years. A few
> years
> > ago I had similar problems with RedHat, but I thought it would have
gotten
> > better in that respect - obviously I was wrong.
> >
> > In general, the distros need to become more uniform in support of
> hardware,
> > because this kind of nonsense really does not make Linux look good in,
at
> > least not in my books.
> >
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
> > (a bit tired, but still determined to get a working Linux installation
> soon)
> >
> >
>
>

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