There are two programs that may help you, normally bundled with the
XFree86 packages.

I am not sure about the correct syntax, please other PICLIST members
correct me (I'm using a Windows machine right now), but IIRC, one is
Xconfigurator and the other is XF86Setup. Both will allow you to set all
necessary parameters and test them trying to open an X sesion.

Or look for the documentation and edit manually the file in
"/etc/X11/XF86Config-4". Bellow is mine one, striped off the unused
comments and features. Note that I am brazilian, so the reference for a
brazilian keyboard layout, and I have an ATI video board (detailed on
the "device" section), you have to look for the name and the options of
your board. You may find it on the XFree86 site http://www.xfree86.org/
. Also note that the scan frequencies of your monitor are quite
important, but those programs have a table of brands/models to look for.

You may also try an specific newsgroup, where you would find better
answers to your questions, like
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=pt&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.linux
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=pt&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.help

Hope this helps.
Best regards
Francisco


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "//usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option      "XkbModel" "abnt2"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "br"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "LG Electronics Inc."
    ModelName    "LG StudioWorks 57i"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "ati"
    Option      "lcd_center"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
EndSection




John Ferrell wrote:

>It looks like a good site.
>I pulled the video card and determined it is an S3 968 as detected but with
>64k rather than the 4k that was detected. Now to see if I really have to go
>through the install process again to fix the configuation problem.
>
>John Ferrell
>6241 Phillippi Rd
>Julian NC 27283
>Phone: (336)685-9606
>Dixie Competition Products
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>"My Competition is Not My Enemy"
>
>

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