Re: xfree

["Shri Shrikumar" <shri@urbyte.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Turner" <artic_knight@yahoo.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: xfree


> i went through the default configuration tool several times, i dont
know
> the exact specs of my monitor but i do know it worked with woody a
while
> back (havent used debian in a while) under those same settings,
however
> now it just gives me a jumbled almost snowy looking screen im not sure
how
> to configure x to work now, i was wondering what you recommend? im
running
> a athelon tbird 1.4 system on the ali chip set with 256 ddr and
geforce2
> 32mb ddr the monitor is a vision graphic thanks for any help


Check /var/log/XFree86.?.log where ? is the screen number. Errors lines
start with (EE) I think. Check if you can find any errors there. Failing
that, try running X on a lower resolution / depth / refresh rate and see
if that works. Try to narrow the problem down.

Hope this helps,




Shri



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