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Evening all,
I've decided to use a spare PowerEdge 2600 as a workstation, primarily for VMware Server 2, but also for some other specific things. One of them being acting as a transcoding station to convert MKV files and stream them to my 360.
With this in mind, and the fact that I haven't got a Linux desktop machine at my disposal at my current location, I thought I'd install 8.10 Desktop Edition onto the 2600.
Install went fine - however the display driver isn't working at all well. 800x600 is what the generic install provides, and I've modded my xorg.conf file to look like below but I'm now left with 640x480.
From what I can gleam from Professor Google the 2600 uses the Rage XL chipset, hence why I've edited xorg.conf to use the ATI driver - though I suspect this may not be enough?
All help/advice/ideas/biscuits appreciated
I've decided to use a spare PowerEdge 2600 as a workstation, primarily for VMware Server 2, but also for some other specific things. One of them being acting as a transcoding station to convert MKV files and stream them to my 360.
With this in mind, and the fact that I haven't got a Linux desktop machine at my disposal at my current location, I thought I'd install 8.10 Desktop Edition onto the 2600.
Install went fine - however the display driver isn't working at all well. 800x600 is what the generic install provides, and I've modded my xorg.conf file to look like below but I'm now left with 640x480.
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "ati"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
From what I can gleam from Professor Google the 2600 uses the Rage XL chipset, hence why I've edited xorg.conf to use the ATI driver - though I suspect this may not be enough?
All help/advice/ideas/biscuits appreciated
