On Saturday 05 October 2002 15.27, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Apparently, I'm STILL not understanding... As I mentioned, I *already* have modelines for 1152x864 (nine of them, actually), and the system seems to be ignoring all of them. So, I don't understand what good it would do for me to create additional modelines at higher resolution, for the system to ignore.
They're ignored because they're wrong for your system. If you add correct ones they won't be ignored. Check the XFree log in /var/log and you'll find that they're ignored for valid reasons (clock frequency out of range etc) If you have the monitor driver disk you can use it in sax2 to create proper mode lines for your monitor.
In more than one mailing list (and some FAQs also, I think...) people have said "Do NOT use old SaX on version 4 of X. SaX2 is for version 4. Old SaX is for version 3.x and will give you more grief than you can imagine if you try to use it to configure 4.x" ... or words to that effect.
It won't give you grief, it simply won't work :) sax will, as you observe, configure X 3.x for you, and create the symlink /var/X11R6/bin/X->an_X3.x_server. It won't overwrite any config files, since X4 and X3 by default use different locations for the config files.
I tried it once, last year, when I was running SuSE 7.3, and I had to reload everything-X from CDs, using textmode YaST.
It should be enough to run SaX2 which will set the system back to using X 4. Or simply set the symlink /var/X11R6/bin/X->/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 //Anders -- 'Deserves [death]. I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.' --Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings