Graphics configuration in Mandrake 8.2

[CocoPop]

I had 8.0 installed and running fine with a resolution of 1280x1024 and 16bit
colour. This is pretty much what I was running in Windows except i had 32bit
there. The graphics card i have is the Kyro2 or Hercules Prophet 3D 2. I
thought this graphics card might be a bit of a problem since its obviously
going to be less well supported in linux and the manufacturers wont put as much
effort into developing drivers for it, but then i saw it was supported in
Mandrake 8.2 and Hercules had released drivers for it under 8.1/8.2.

I got the 3 CDs from my m8's dad and tried to do the update option which seemed
to take a long time updating the packages but worked in the end. 8.2 has more
options for which res and bitrate you want to run your graphics at so i chose
the settings i had previously used in Windows, 1280x1024 32bit. The
installation finished and it rebooted fine, then X didnt load and i started to
get worried. I dont know much about Linux commands so i decided a reinstall
would be the best idea.

It seemed logical to me that if my graphics card didnt
support the settings i had chosen then i wouldnt get a GUI on boot, so i
lowered the settings to less demanding levels of 1024x768 and 16bit. This
loaded the GUI fine, unfortunately not with the settings i had chosen. Instead
of getting 1024x768, X loaded in 800x600 which i figured wasnt such a problem
since i can be easily changed.

On changing the graphics settings from ControlCentre > Display i was prompted
with a dialogue box telling me to reboot. I did this and X loaded again in
800x600 dispite telling it to boot in 1280x1024. I tried some more options and
saw in the expert mode that i could choose graphics card and monitor settings.
KYRO series is the closest available from what i could see but this is
presumably for the KYRO1 chipset rather than the KYRO2 chipset which i have. I
changed the monitor settings to a better model representing the one which i
have and rebooted again. On load i checked all the settings and it was again
running in 800x600 and with the old monitor setting rather than the new one i
selected.

The only explanation for this that i can come up with is that the config isnt
saving the settings i enter.

Has anyone else experienced this problem before or could you suggest any
solutions for me?

[JimH]

Hmmm, XFree86 4.2.0 doesn't seem to have native support for the kyro2. The drivers Mandrake comes with must be the ones PowerVR provides. Not much information on their website either.

I would like to see your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files. These files are not small. Especially the log. :P

The log is going to be longer then is allowed in a post. We need to setup webmai for GLO members for these kind of things.l

Jim H