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Update: I now have a beautiful 800x600 8-bit display, thanks to
several helpful replies and some further pondering on my part.
I am using XFree86 ver 4.x (whichever version comes with woody). I
had indicated that the cirrus driver did not work: I was wrong; it works
well. I must have had one of the timing or sync values set
incorrectly. I don't want to post the XF86Config-4 file (at least not yet)
because I have not tried other color depths, nor have I tried virtual
screens. When I am sure it works well I'll make it available.
Now - on to sound!
Thanks to the list for info and help,
Jeff Wilson
Friends -
I'm doing my first Debian install (woody) on a Compaq Armada 4131T
laptop. All goes well until I try X configuration. The best I have
managed to achieve is a small screen image (centered, with about a 3 cm border
on all sides) containing a GIGANTIC image - so large that only a very small
portion of it is available (e.g., just the graphic KDE in the opening screen as
KDE opens).
I have examined some of the 41xxT XF86Config files available on the web,
and have tried some of them directly, without success. I'm currently using
the vga driver (it's a cirrus chip, but the cirrus driver is incompatible with
this laptop), and specify an image of 800x600 with 8-bit color depth.
Is there something obviously wrong with what I am doing? (Clearly
there is something wrong with it, or I would have beautiful images on the
screen).
Thanks in advance from a novice (4th linux install, 1st Debian) needing
help,
Jeff Wilson
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