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Re: graphic card problems



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James Hosken wrote:
| I've tying to configure xfree86 on a old PIII450, it running Sarge. It
| has a on-board graphics card, the output from lspci is
|
| pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
| 0000:00:00.0 Host Bridge: Intel Corp. 82810 GMCh [Graphics Memory
| Controller Hub] (rev 03)
| 0000:00:01.0 VGA compatable contrller: Intel Corp. 82810 CGC [Chipset
| Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
| And a few more devices.
|
| I've run dpkg-reconfigure several time and been through all the options,
| the framebuffers option doesn't make any difference. There are no
| options in the biso for setting the level of RAM assigned for graphics.
|
|
| I have a knoppix disk here, and so loaded it, X booted, but I couldn't
| use the keyboard for some reason. Hence I couldn't look at any of the
| configuration. As Knoppix worked, I know that it can be done. But as I
| have already setup the rest of Sarge I don't want to trash it with a
| knoppix HD install.
|
| Can any one help?
| James
|

To follow up from this, I've managed to get gnoppix working better than
Knoppix. I have managed to copy the whole of Gnoppix's /etc/X11.
What parts of /etc/X11 should I be looking at and moving the info across
onto the Sarge install?

Cheers
James


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http://www.jamesho.co.uk
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