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Re: small laptop with only floppy drive



On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:43, Brandon Richards wrote:
> another problem developed.  i have stable installed.  when i got it
> installed it wont let me into the graphical interface due to the fact
> that i think i chose the wrong install option.  when i installed i
> chose the vga driver option but then i chose the colors as 24.  now it
> wont boot into the graphical interface.  i found a website to help but
> cant figure out how to rpm the package into the directory.  please
> help.  website is:
> <http://www.hpcc.uh.edu/~tonyc/sony/linux-main.html>.
>
> Thanks for any help u can provide.  also there is no
> /etc/x11/xf86config directory in my system.

This is the file you will need to edit as root:
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Find the section:
Section "Screen"

and after change this:
        DefaultDepth    16

maybe your DefaultDepth is 24, change it to 16.

Then restart the X server. 

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