First Time RedHat 8 Install prob

[timeless420]

Did my first install of RedHat 8 today (or any Linux at all) and for the most part it went fine. I'm running it on my system as a dual boot, but I have had a bit of trouble getting the display settings to work correctly. My current vid card is the Leadtek WinFast A5250 TD (GF4 4400ti) and my monitor is the LG Flatron 915FT Plus. Niether of this were correctly detected (detected as generic GF4 and noting for the monitor) by the installer nor were they present on the list of diplay crds or monitors. I have it up and working but this is only with 16bit colour. Does anyone know what I could do to get 32bit colour enabled? I also selected a genetic monitor with 1660x1200 resolution @76Hz, but my monitor supports a refresh rate of 85Hz. Is there any way I can fix this as well.

TIA

Evan

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by timeless420 on 01/02/03 08:27 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[silverpig]

This is fairly normal. You'll proabably want to install the nvidia drivers for your card. Very detailed instructions on how to do that are all over the net.

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[zz2lol]

My friend,
I have has the Red Hat 8 too. I have detected my video card (GF2 MX400) and my display (AOC Spectrum 4Vn). So, I think the driver for your display it has, but your video card can be new to the Red Hat 8 (released at September). Try to see in the video card home page if they have drivers for Linux.
My video card came with a CD with the drivers (Windows and Linux).

Good luck!

 

[poorboy]

As silverpig says, grab the nvidia drivers - the readme on the nvidia site is pretty good.

Regarding colours and refresh rates, here's how to (manually) set these up.

Colour is easy. Set up a Display SubSection, and tell it what Colour Depth and resolutions you want. You can have multiple Display SubSections, each with multiple Modes listed ("1024x768" "800x600" ...) on a single line. The default colour depth is specified, and the default resolution is whichever is listed first in the Modes section for that colour depth.

If you only want one res/colour, something like this is correct. Just make sure the Device, Monitor, and Identifier tags suit your config file. Eg:
<pre>Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 32
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1660x1200"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
</pre><p>For refresh rates, the old method was to edit "Mode lines" in the /etc/XF86Config file. These lines told the driver what scan-rates the monitor could do. I won't go into the details, but google can help if you're interested.

Now, you just enter the monitor capabilities into the [Monitor] section. Eg, this snippet from my config (I'm using an LCD, so the 60Hz is correct) Note that the Modes are commented out, because I prefer to let it work it out on the fly:
<pre>Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
DisplaySize 300 230
HorizSync 31-48.4
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1024X768@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
#UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

#Section "Modes"
# Identifier "Modes[0]"
# Modeline "1024x768" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802
# Modeline "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
#EndSection
</pre><p>RedHat has pretty good config tool for setting this stuff up, so take a look at that first, before getting hands dirty in the config files. BTW, I think the config file is /etc/XF86Config-4 in RedHat (has this changed with 8.0?)


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[timeless420]

We'll Ive tried to install the drives as per the readme, but alas they won't compile for some reason. I'm just glad school hasn't picked up yet. I've been looking for a bit of a challenge anyways

 

[poorboy]

You don't need to compile them. Just grab the RedHat 8 binary versions from the site. Installation should be as easy as `rpm -Uvh NVIDIA*.rpm`

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