Ben Coffman wrote:

> 
> I have recently installed gentoo.  Everything works fine except that 
> video card will only display in a very low resolution.  So I have these 
> huge icons and what not in gnome.
> 
> I have ran just about every X configuration tool out(xf86cfg, XFree86 
> configure, X -configure) there and the only one that lets my video card 
> work is xf86cfg
> 
> I know the card will work in higher resolutions because Red Hat ran with 
> it just fine.
> It is a 3DLabs permedia2 with 8mb.  I have posted my xf86config file 
> below.  All suggestions are welcome I just want to get this card to 
> work.  :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
>        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>        Load  "record"
>        Load  "extmod"
>        Load  "dbe"
>        Load  "dri"
>        Load  "glx"
>        Load  "xtrap"
>        Load  "type1"
>        Load  "speedo"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>        Driver      "keyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>        ### Available Driver options are:-
>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>        ### [arg]: arg optional
>        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "RGBbits"                   # <i>
>        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "BlockWrite"                # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "FireGL3000"                # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "Overlay"                   # [<str>]
>        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "UseFlatPanel"              # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # [<bool>]
>        Identifier  "Card0"
>        Driver      "glint"
>        VendorName  "Texas Instruments"
>        BoardName   "TVP4020 [Permedia 2]"
>        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "Screen0"
>        Device     "Card0"
>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     1
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     4
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     8
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     15
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
> Depth     16
>        EndSubSection
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     24
>        EndSubSection
> EndSection

Unless I'm missing something, you don't seem to have any Modelines listed or 
default modelines selected in the various Display subsections (just color depths).