I have just installed Red Hat Advance Server on one of my machines and i am having major problems getting the configuration for the video card setup. The monitor that i have is a LG Flatron L1512s (LCD) and the video card is a S3 ProSavage DDR (32mb).

It seems to be having a lot of problems probing the video card, and when i have everything selected that i believe is correct the server fails to start.

I have gone to a couple of websites and one of the suggested things to try is to download the an updated driver from viaarena, would this work ?

Would it be worth trying to upgrade to 4.3.0? Would that solve the problem that i am having.

I had problems too with prosavageddr and rh9

red hat recognizes your card as prosavageDDR ??

it doesnt recognize it at all. unfortunately the video card is built on to the motherboard. When i try to tell rh what the video card is and how much memory there is, the Xserve test fails.

this is what I did, hope it works for you:

1. download the driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

it contains a file named savage_drv.o
extract it to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

2. in text mode you do this in the command line

init 3
XFree86 -configure

this will create a file XF86Config.new

3. Replace the file /etc/X11/XF86Config with the XF86Config.new
example : cp XFree86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config


4. Start xwindows with
startx

thanks i will try that. i will post again after i have and let you know how i went.