Square peg, round hole???

[smurfy]

New Vid card - GeForce4MX440 64MB DDR.

Mandrake 9.0 = GeForce4 = X is happy. 1024x768 24Bit
Lycoris/LX = GeForce2 = X is still happy. 1024x768 16bit
RedHat7.1 = nada!

Dammit. I can't get better than 800x600 8bit in X.
Doesn't matter what I call the card in Xconfigurator.
I'm beginning to think this is like Win95 and USB, sometimes old O/S and New hardware just don't mix.

Anyone got any suggestions how I can get old kernel to like new Vid Card or do I just bite the bullet and forget about a graphical RedHat 7.1 on this box now?

[twistedcranium]

You could grab the same code for the driver module that the other two OSes use and then compile that into the kernel. A lot of work, though....and I couldn't help you with 'cooking up a new kernel'....only did it once myself and it turned out to be a nightmare.

This may be a bunch of work as well....but maybe RH 7.2 or 7.3 have the 'right stuff' in them to handle the vid card.

After reading many posts on linux newsgroups, I've gathered that NVidia cards and Linux are often things that don't play well together.

[ceh383]

The nvidia web site has a script that will do everything(almost) you need to to get that card working. Before the script will run, you will need to install the kernel-source code.

You can get the script HERE (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4363)

Once you have it installed, open the XF86Config file and change the driver in the "Graphics device setion" to "nvidia"

Another thing to look at is HorizSync and VertRefresh rates. Incorrectly set these can cause problems with higher resolutions.

[smurfy]

Thanks guys - TC - recompiling my own Kernel is something that i see myself having some notion of how to do in about 3 years time LOL.

ceh383, i have already tried mucking around with the conf file (as a last resort after Xconfigurater failed for the 500th time) with some of the same settings from Mandrake9.
I can run Mandrake9 with XFree using GeForce2 "driver" but not redHat7.1
The more I read, the more I think this is tied up more with the XFree version rather than the kernel. That will be a good learning experience for me soon, updating various parts of the O/S.
Probably won't be this weekend though :)

[PostCode]

Does it see your monitor properly?

[smurfy]

Monitor is not auto-detected but setting manually to correct make & model (Tatung C5D) in this hardware combo with the old Diamond SpeedstarA55 4Meg AGP Vid Card (S3 chip) was fine in RH7.1 so I'm pretty sure that's not the issue.