Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?
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<[🔎] 3827.200.241.248.5.993740519.squirrel@webmail.nautilus.com.br>, Jordi
S. Bunster wrote:
> > As far as I know, the card is Plug and Play. Why can't X
> > probe the card and find out for me?
>
> Did you try SuperProbe? log in as root, type: SuperProbe. Turn
> off your monitor(s), hit ENTER, wait for about 10 seconds and
> turn the monitor back again.
It says
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: S3 Vision964 (PCI Probed)
Memory: 2048 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables
(or in 6-bit mode))
Is this information supposed to be helpful to me in some way?
I run XF86Setup, and choose SVGA server. It gives me a list of chipsets
to choose from - none of them say S3 Vision964, or Vision964. It gives
me a list of RamDacs to choose from. None of them say "generic". It
gives me a list of clock chips - I still don't know what my clock chip
is.
> That's not really a Debian issue, technically speaking. AFAIK,
> that's a potato issue. woody (or was it sid) have better
> configurators for X. Or am I wrong? List?
Good. Is it worth me "upgrading" to another version? The machine is
there mostly to run samba, apache, apache-ssl and php4. I need a solid,
stable ftp client which will work through a gateway, and the ability to
ssh in from other machines on the network.
Or is there a later package I can install on my existing system?
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