Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

John Joe wrote:

> sound finally works!
>
> i compile sound as module and use sndconfig, it's OK.
> Surely Debian is hard to use.
>  

Excellent! I'm glad you got that working!

> but X still does not work.
>
> though only 1M, it support 800x600 with 16bit color in
> Win95. i could afford a new old card. i found an i740
> card on eachnet(China's ebay) for 57 yuan or $6, but i
> don't want waste money. i play no 3d game, so 9680 is
> enough, except for X 4.0?
>
> "horizontal and vertical settings" are filled
> according monitor's manual, so it's not problem.
>
> let me repeat my trouble, i enter xinit, X starts, and
> the background is OK, the only app (i install no
> window manager) is xterm, but it has trouble. the
> screen has several rectangles of xterm, their sizes
> vary, i can see two prompt... in a nutshell, its
> behavior is weird.
>   
>  
So have you tried changing from VESA to SVGA? Or even VGA?

Also, have you tried cycling through the available resolutions with 
Ctrl-Alt-PlusOnTheNumberPad or Ctrl-Alt-MinusOnTheNumberPad?

Also, you might try dropping the horizontal and vertical values; 
dropping shouldn't hurt your monitor, and can sometimes force X 4.x to 
use a different configuration that can produce different results. It's 
counter-intuitive, but it's worth a shot.

Kent