On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:35, Russ Cook wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's > windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine). > I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but > could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro. > > The sympton is that when I run startx, the screen goes black. > It doesn't fault out and return to text mode - it just remains > black. I've identified the window manager to use, and have tried > changing the window manager. I've attached the XFree86 log file. > > I have XWindows successfully running on another machine, with > a different video card. > > Can anyone help? Have you tried "XFree86 -configure" then "XFree86 -xf86config <whatever it called the resultant file>" as root? This was the only way I got XFree86 4.2 to talk sense to the ATI Rage 128 Ultra TF in the Dell Optiplex GX240 at work. Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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