Sunday, June 24, 2007

setup X window on a machine with built-in VGA and VGA card

some machines have built-in VGA output and would disable it after you insert new VGA card (AGP or PCI). In some cases, when you run sax2 under Suse, you will get blank/black screen due to wrong detection of multiple VGAs. To settup X window correctly with sax2, try these steps:
sax2 -p : list all your VGA cards
sax2 -c 0 -l : configure card 0 with low resolution mode

detailed configuration of sax2 : http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:X_Server_Configuration_with_SaX2_(8.1_or_Higher)

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