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on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:14:11PM -0800, Jon Nichols (solutrean@linuxwaves.com) wrote:
> --- Nate Amsden <aphro@portal.aphroland.org>
> > wrote:
> >Jon Nichols wrote:
> >>
> >> Howdy.
> >>
> >> When I first started using Debian a few weeks ago, I got 1600x1200
> >> in my X with 16-bit color. I no longer can do better than 1152x864.
> >> I have a S3 Savage4 card, which works OK in other OS's... and I
> >> have been sticking with tthe stable packages.... I have been thru
> >> xf86config and XF86Setup a number of times....
> >>
> >> ideas?
> >
> >kill any display managers(xdm, kdm, gdm etc) and run X from the command
> >line:
> >
> >startx >&X.log
> >
> >then paste the log to the mailinglist that will most likely show the
> >problem.
> >also what happens when you try 1600x1200 ? does the monitor go black?
> >does
> >the mode just not switch at all(maybe its deleted when X loads), does it
> >look real screwed up ? or what.
> >
> >nate
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> I will do the log thing later...cant kill X right now.
No need. Switch to a virtual console (<ctrl><alt>-F[1-6]), log in, if
necessary, and run:
$ startx -- :1 2>&1 | tee startx.log
...if you get permission errors, do it as root (there's a known issue
with the X wrappers config). Post this to list.
> I have already killed all display managers as a matter of taste. I did
> this back when I still had full resolution, and it didnt affect
> anything AFAICT.
Totally unrelated.
> When I tried to go X in 1600x1200, It would think about it a second
> and spit me back to the console with a "no valid modes" or something
> similar. So no X at all.
Um. Yeah. And I can read your error messages, card type, and X server
from here. Not.
> FWIW, I am *really* enjoying Debian. fonts and such are better, and
> everything just works better than in RH, which I used since about
> 1995. :)
Yeah, but we're a lot ornerier over here, 'specially since all the
newbies are discovering us.
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