On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a | little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! I have an inspiron 7500 here that works just fine | My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even | gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then | redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and | 3-quarter marks. The result is pretty legible for the second quarter, | but absolutely illegible at the bottom. | The RedHat and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this | machine look fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with | this video card. | | Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right | direction? The only thing I can think of is bad driver settings. I believe the installer uses the 'vga16' framebuffer driver. You could try to use the VGA driver instead. (try appending "vga=0" to the kernel command line) I use the vesafb driver (1280x1024x26) with no problems at all. -D -- Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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