Re: XFree86 setup!!!
Actually I would love to hear the advice to this user as I have the same
board on my machine and X does not run ever since I upgraded to Debian 1.3.1
At 08:05 AM 10/27/97 +0000, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
>I suspect you told xf86config to Probe.
>Do not probe. And do not use the fancy setup program.
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>And then make sure you see a stable grey screen before venturing further.
>You may also have to use the following command line.
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>startx -- -bpp 16
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>Chuma
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>Shaul Peleg wrote:
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>> I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to
>> display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't
>> ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA
>> base... and I tried using both of the Jaton drivers (neither for the
>> 67P) and Trident 96xx drivers. My monitor settings were for regular
>> 640x400 VGA (I tried 800x600 too). I have tried numerous combinations. I
>> have looked at the XFConfig file ... BTW I installed afterstep. I am new
>> at this... please help. It took me hours to figure out how to get the
>> pointer moving!!! Thanks all. -sp
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