On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 13:41, DSC Extra wrote: > I have just installed Woody; I have picked KDE as my default > X-server; I tried to set up with xf86config. > Interestingly, when I try to enter X with startx, I bomb out, as X > refuses to initialize the graphics modes that are possible, > and instead tries to initialize all the super-high-res modes. > > My card lists as a 2 MB ATI Tech. Enhanced Mach 64 Rage Pro Turbo > AGP with DirectDraw 1.0 > > On Potato, I'm pretty sure I used the ATI Graphics Pro Turbo. > That's what I tried here, and it didn't work. > > However, I also seem to remember that there were a bunch of > easier, graphically driven setup programs. > Can anyone tell me what they are? That might help me on the > installation. Or, if you know exactly what I need to do, > please let me know. > > Thanks. I think woody uses ver4 as the default ver of Xfree86, in which case I don't think 'xf86config' works. For Xfree86 ver4 use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' or use 'dselect' and install Xfree86 ver 3.3.6, which is what potato uses. KDE doesn't have much to-do with as a X-server :) -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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