XFree86 weirdness: no neomagic but fb? - Solved

[Patrick]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 19:33, Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Laptop is a Toshiba Tecra 8000 which works fine on RH9 at 1024x768,
> 24bpp with the neomagic driver straight out of the box. Just installed
> beta2 (clean install). During install, the process would not get me
> 1024x768, 24bpp but something completely ugly.
> 
> I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config to contain imho valid entries:
> neomagic driver, 1024x768 resolution, 24 bit depth.
> 
> When it starts up it seems like it is doing the right thing but then
> throttles back to a lower quality: the cross pointer gets all jagged,
> fonts look terrible etc.
> 
> It shows in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that it uses the fb driver and *not*
> the neomagic driver. The resulting screen looks pretty bad. This seems
> b0rked to me. Running redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig and select
> different combinations does not make a difference.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> TIA,
> Patrick
> 

All is well now. I had to disable the RandR extension. Is this known or
do I have to file a bugreport?

TIA,
Patrick