tpaman1975

I'm gonna reference this by saying I am Linux newbie but I've been working in IT for over 10 years and know my way around a machine. I have been tinkering with Fedora Core 2 since work has us going through a class right now for it. I got it working without a problem on a Dell laptop Long story short.....I grabbed a Dell Optiplex SX270 desktop and loaded Fedora Core 2. After setup finished and reboot it went to launch a startx session for the first time and errored out. All the information you should need to know is listed below. My goal here is to get this thing working with at the very least a 800x600 (greater than 256 color) configuration in gnome. IDEALLY I would like to see it working at 1024x768 with more than 256 colors. I was logged on as root for all of this in case you need that information. MACHINE INFORMATION Processor Information: Intel Pentium 4 - 3 GHz processor Memory: 512 Mb, 400 MHz DDR SDRAM Video: Intel 865G embedded graphics ERROR INFORMATION (==) Using config file: "etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) I810(0): No video BIOS modes for chosen depth. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" In the xorg.0.log file it lists several modes, the one I want is listed as Mode: 54 (1024x768) but I haven't the slightest idea how to specify this. I did play with some minor settings in xorg.conf and could get gnome working in a 640x480 configuration with 16 mil colors but it just isn't that functional that way. <Smile> Anyones assistance is greatly appreciated. If you need more assistance please feel free to email me directly at clineto@yahoo.com

For those of you that are having similiar problems, I had a friend load Fedora on the same kind of machine. The BIOS update is necessary, the video change by itself doesn't work. Thought I would note that just incase. Todd

Your the man :-) I had already done the A04 update and that didn't change things but you also recommended: "Enter the BIOS setup, go to 'Integrated Devices', then to 'Onboard video buffer'. Change it from the default 1Mb to 8Mb." That worked like a charm, much thanks to you sir. Todd

That's what I was trying to get. I know it supports it I just need to know what changes need to be made to xorg.conf to get it to run correctly. I am also running Fedora Core 2, not FreeBSD which I assume is what you are running. The log and config files are a little different.

Nope unfortunately an alternate video card isn't an option for me. This is an ultra small form factor machine.......meaning simply there are no expansion slots at all. Thanks for the post though Todd