On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:40:17AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a > better way? $ startx -- -bpp <colordepth> ...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (generally deprecated), 32. Or in /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the value of "Depth" under 'SubSection "Display"'. > b) fix helix-gnome. I downloaded helix-gnome... on reboot i get the > gnome login manager but an attempt to login to gnome makes the monitor > go "clunk" and then returnms to the login manager... it will let me log > into WMaker so its not the end of the world. Launch X from the command prompt (startx) and look at your error output. > c) sound.... i scavenged the sound card so make and model is a > mystery... the Rhat sndconfig always used to sort it out for me... will > alsaconf do the same? What were your RedHat configurations for this card? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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