On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 13:22, Rick Commo wrote: > System > ------ > Asus A7V / 750Mhz Athlon / 512MB > Matrox Millenium G200 SD > > Problem > ------- > The system is working under Gentoo, had been working fine under SUSe and > Mandrake before I blew them away. I recently downloaded all 8 Woody CDs > from a mirror in Norway. > > I am having the worst time with X (4.x). startx just would not work > claiming that mga_ha1 was missing. I ran and reran xf86cfg and xf86config a > couple of times. (can never remember configurator is for which version of X) > a couple of times. No luck. > > In frustration I just appended '.old' to both XF86Config and XFConfig-4. > When I entered startx up came GDM. I rebooted the system and got to the gdm > login screen. > > Question > -------- > What is going on? Other than less colors (I estimate 256), the resolution > appears to be 1024x768 which is just right for my 15" LCD panel. > > Secondarily how do I capture the configuration and translate that into an X > config file? > > Any thought greatly appreciated. > -rick To configure Xfree86 ver. 4 use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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