On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:51:10PM -0400, StvRodney@aol.com wrote: > System > Pentium III 733 Mz > 512 Mb RAm > 40GB Seagate Hard drive > RIVA TNT-2 Model 64 Graphics Card > Keyboard 105 Keys with extra buttons Internet, Sleep, and Email > Mouse with Two buttons and a wheel > Internal Modem card no details known > > I purchased Debian 3.0 Woody and installed it on this old system that has > been kicking around my flat for about a year. (I had a catastrophic hard disc > failure and could not put Windows XP on my system.) It took all day to do it > and I still occasionally get a kernel failure when booting. But my mai > problem is when using xf86config to set up the GUI. It always fails. > I have exact details about my monitor. As you can see I know the model of the > graphics card but I am not sure of the Video memory size. I am not sure about > keyboard type and details. As for the mouse, no idea about the make or which > port it is connected to. I cannot send log files since the installation also > failed to recognised my modem card of which I also have no details. Not much > in the way details. Any help would be greatly appreciated > Kind Regards > Steven Rodney > > Since you are not sure about all your hardware, as root you could try: XFree86 -configure See "man XFree86" for details. After you try to start X with the resulting config file, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what X reports about your hardware and any error that occurred. If you don't get a useful config file, you could post the errors you are getting. -- Jerome
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