Re: confusing X problem
Patrick,
You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick Olson <compman@internetcds.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: confusing X problem
>
> I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply
> had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200. I would like it to
> do 800x600 with 256 (or more) colors. The video card does that just fine
> under Windows95, so I know the hardware is capable, although maybe not
> very compatible.
>
> I wasn't sure about using a lot of bandwidth on this list since the config
> file is about 20K, so I have put it on my ISP's server along with the
> output. They are at these two addresses:
>
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/logfile.txt
>
> I would really appreciate any help, or pointers to documentation that
> would help. If anyone would like me to e-mail them the config file or the
> output, I will be happy to.
>
> XF86Setup could not successfully switch into graphics mode with the VGA16
> server; it just put a grey background on the screen and nothing else. The
> configuration file was originally made using xf86config, and I have made
> some changes to try and get 800x600 (without any success).
>
> The video card is a 2MB Diamond Viper Pro Video, and is a PCI card. I
> have been trying to use the SVGA X server.
>
> Please help me figure this out so I don't have to run Win95 on this
> computer :-)
>
> Patrick
>
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