I just installed RH9.0 on an IBM Thinkpad T20. all appears to run okay except for the display. the display is running on an S3 Savage/IX and the display will not accept resolutions of 1024X768 and beyond. i am stuck with 800x600.

I have done the following:
(1) downloaded the savage driver and configured - no success
(2) downloaded XFree86, configured...etc. however no success...
(3) in desparation I vi'd the xf86 config and config.backup file to include 1024x768 - no success.

the file config is as follows:
# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Unknown monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "savage"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "S3 Savage/IX"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666


can anyone help a brother out?

thanks in advance.

I have a T20 too, and I had a similar problem. What you need to do is to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (that's what it is on my Debian system) and for each of the bitdepths, make the Modes line read >>
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
This will default X to 1024x768, and it should work.

Have you been able to get hardware-level 3D accelleration to work?
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shack

Shack - thanks for the advice. unfortunately, this didn't work - but was part of the needed fix. i received guidance from another source. they, too, said to change the modes (like you said) to: "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

but also change the following:
HorizSync to 30.0-70.0
VertRefresh 50.0-90.0

this worked and I was able to get my display to 1024x768.

i haven't worked with the 3D accelerator. but if i hear something, I'll let you know.

thanks for the assist.