Re: startx problem--fixed!
Dear Todd
This time I edited XF86Config-4 by hand(vi). Change the "driver" line in
the "Device" section to "vesa" , and add a line in the same section that
says
VideoRam 65536
Then reboot, and the Gnome was beautifully appearing in front of me. Woo, so
nice to see it. Very good.
I know I would not have had such good feeling without you and all other
Debian users' help.
Thanks very much for all your precious help and time. It is really great to
have experts helping you along before you are pulling all your hair off.
Now I will advance to my next hard trip_install Oracle 9i on Debian!
Best regards
Jennifer
>
> No, it's a very different problem. You did read the log file, didn't
> you? We see...
>
> <snip from log>
> ==) VGA(0): videoRam: 256 kBytes.
> ...
> (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (insufficient memory for
> mode)
> (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (insufficient memory
> for mode)
> <onward and onward through the modes>
>
> So X thinks your video card has only 256K of RAM - note that's a "K",
> not an "M". No remotely standard video mode can squash its data into
> 256K. Not sure why debconf got the memory so wrong. You could try
> running the configuration program again as before - this time, be sure
> to 1) select the appropriate card - "GeForce" or "nvidia" or similar and
> 2) specify the video memory - you may need to give this in KB, i.e. 64MB
> = 64 x 1024K = 65536K. Alternatively, you could edit XF86Config-4 by
> hand. Change the "driver" line in the "Device" section to "vesa" or
> maybe "nv" and add a line in the same section that says
>
> VideoRam 65536
>
>
> Hope that helps...
> Todd
>
>
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