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Re: startx problems on Umax S900



on 04.5.21 8:10 PM, Paul Mullen at pem@nellump.net was reported to have
writen:

> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Eric D. Hedekar wrote:
>> On about the last seven installs of woody that I've done on my Umax S900 I
>> have been unsuccsessfull in starting the x-window-system.  The startx
> 
> FWIW, I gave up on trying to get X to play nice with the Twin Turbo
> card. My S900 has the 8 MB version, and I could never get the display to
> start up without looking screwball. The best I could do was a useable
> desktop, but a completely messed up color map. It wasn't really an issue
> since the box runs headless. I have a VNC server running on it for the
> rare occasion I need to see the desktop.
> 
> If you like, I'll forward a copy of my XF86Config-4 file. If memory
> serves, the imstt128 driver was supposed to perform better with the 4MB
> cards.
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
did you try setting the bit depth to 15?

dylan



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