Anyone out there had trouble fine tuning the settings of sax2 on a 7.0 system?? I have a Dell Optiplex with the Intel i810 integrated graphics chipset and sax2 preset the x-session to 1280x1024 (on a 17" monitor). I was impressed that it could do that but it was a bit too small. I tried to use the sax2 interface but it kept locking up on me and I had to telnet in and reboot. I tried it within the x-session as well as in command line mode. I ended up reloading the old sax instead and using the old (inferior I'm sure) drivers. I am just curious. Doug
It crashed for me too. I haven't solved it yet but I take my time. Graphics processor is Rage Pro (ATI). Patrick At 14:30 25/01/01 -0600, Doug Finch wrote:
Anyone out there had trouble fine tuning the settings of sax2 on a 7.0 system?? I have a Dell Optiplex with the Intel i810 integrated graphics chipset and sax2 preset the x-session to 1280x1024 (on a 17" monitor). I was impressed that it could do that but it was a bit too small. I tried to use the sax2 interface but it kept locking up on me and I had to telnet in and reboot. I tried it within the x-session as well as in command line mode. I ended up reloading the old sax instead and using the old (inferior I'm sure) drivers. I am just curious. Doug
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I had similar problems with SAX2 and SuSE 7.0. I have a "problematic" video chip, a SiS 6326, so I was waiting for XFree86 4.0 to get full support. Well that requires SAX2 for setup. I didn't get a full screen image, nor did I get a cursor (although it recognized my mouse). Actually, the cursor was a large white square and I learned that I could actually position it over fields and click them. I even set the resolution down to 600 x 480. The same video card + monitor works OK @ 1280 x 1024 under another OS that I want to get rid of ;-) . To "fix" things I went into SAX2's "expert" mode -- trying to do things like set SWCursor. It seems that EVEN GOING INTO EXPERT MODE (i.e., without making changes) causes things to crash. After going into expert mode X crashed with error messages saying that lots of file paths to font files were invalid -- and I hadn't even touched the file paths!! Well, I wrote all this up and sent it into SuSE support a week ago. I had expected to hear back by now. Maybe I'll get some answers, in which case I'll post them back here. Peter Hollings
It crashed for me too. I haven't solved it yet but I take my time. Graphics processor is Rage Pro (ATI).
Patrick
At 14:30 25/01/01 -0600, Doug Finch wrote:
Anyone out there had trouble fine tuning the settings of sax2 on a 7.0 system?? I have a Dell Optiplex with the Intel i810 integrated graphics chipset and sax2 preset the x-session to 1280x1024 (on a 17" monitor). I was impressed that it could do that but it was a bit too small. I tried to use the sax2 interface but it kept locking up on me and I had to telnet in and reboot. I tried it within the x-session as well as in command line mode. I ended up reloading the old sax instead and using the old (inferior I'm sure) drivers. I am just curious. Doug
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I ended up reloading the old sax instead and using the old (inferior I'm sure) drivers. I am just curious. Doug
There is a new sax2 @ ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/Xfree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/suse70/sax2/sax2-4.1-105.i386.rpm. Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.4.0, X 4.0.2, IBM JDK 1.1.8 or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a
On Friday 26 January 2001 04:42, Ed Harrison wrote: <Snip>
There is a new sax2 @ ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/Xfree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/suse70/sax2/sax2-4 .1-105.i386.rpm.
<Snip> Your pointer above highlights one of the problems with the present Install of updates through YAST 1. By default Yast leads me to the updates for SuSe 7.0 in the ftp directory at SuSE. Nowhere in the subdirectories is an updated Sax2. As you have indicated above you have to go back up the ftp chain to X to then find Sax2. Oh to just fire up yast and for it to say the following are available for your system based on your installation. Also, unless I am doing something wrong, I have to sit at my system to change subdirectories. This is an area where SuSe could pick up a few pointers from the Helix gnome update and, dare I say it, is one of the good features of Windows 98 -- Stu "The specification said Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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