Hi; I'm a real newbie.
I've just tried RH9 on a GX270 with 64 Mb on the 865 board.
redhat-config-xfree86 only reports 16 Mbyte... any ideas why?
This possibility suggested the basis for the crappy low res X video.
I tried the downgrade to A02 - this doesn't seem to have fixed anything. So I restored the A03 BIOS - now 64 Mbyte is an option for the video card settings. But there is no change to the resolution/appearance after restarting X.
RIght now, I'm running 1600x1200 with ~100 dpi and 64 Mb with the i810 driver. The screen is filled, but it appears to be running in a low res mode. I can easily see the bits in the letters.
Looking over /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I find near the bottom of the file:
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Not using mode "800x600" (no mode of this name)
(II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (640 ->1024).
(--) I810(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 1024)
(**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "640x480"
(II) I810(0): Attempting to use 73Hz refresh for mode "640x480" (41)
(**) I810(0): Display dimensions: (360, 290) mm
(**) I810(0): DPI set to (45, 42)
I get these error messages with either the A02 or A03 BIOS.
It looks like the video problem may be due to a default video choice, perhaps resulting from nonregnition of the selected display mode. It looks like one of the drivers may not be recognizing the BIOS return call for the display. How do we find out what the BIOS is returning?
I hope this is all not too confusing - I'm a bit baffled and hoping someone solves this problem.