Need advice
Greetings Wise Debian Users,
I am having some trouble getting Xserver to work on my PC.
I downloaded the base file to my WIN98 partition. I got the basic
system to work. I got the modem to work and downloaded the 189MB for
the Workstation profile(incl. web, etc.)
I installed LILO and I can dual boot now without the floppy boot disk.
I went into xf86config (several tries) and tried to configure the
Xserver according to my hardware. I have some unusual hardware and I'm
wondering if I will be able to get it all to work ??
When I start up the system in Linux now, I get an X window. It has the
Debian LOGO on top but the font is quite large and doesn't really fit.
There are a few executed commands shown below the logo. The mouse does
not seem to work at that point and I don't know what to do within the
window. There is "no where to go".
I have a Super Socket 7 and AMD 300MHz mainboard (PCCHIPS). There is an
on-board SiS video chip (6326) with 8MB memory. I have tried to pick
the only SiS video card listed but the model# is not the same. I have
also tried the generic VGA and the unsupported VGA. The SuperProbe says
it is Super-VGA, Tseng ...., 0kb memory and Generic 8-bit pseudo-color
DAC. Also, an issue down the road might be the on-board sound chip from
C-media.
Finally, I have added an ATX Form Card that has a P/S2 mouse connection
and two USB ports. I have the mouse connected there and I chose #4 for
P/S mouse on the configuration(also choose /dev/mouse rather than
ttyS0. The modem works fine on ttyS1.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks,
Don
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