Re: xwindows ati rage 128 pro
--- Lance Lucas <llucas@gladstone.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I installed debian with a very basic install, no X
> > especially.
>
> Which version of Debian? I think most anyone doing
> a new install today
> would be starting with Sarge, but based on the age
> of your equipment, I
> suppose you may be using Woody...
I don't know whether it was Sarge or Woody. When I
downloaded the ISO I downloaded ver. 3.0R4 Disk 1 (as
far as I could tell it was the newest ver.
>
> > I am using a pentium 400Mhz, old emachine (got it
> > cheap)w/128MB mem and 16MB ati Rage 128 GL video
> agp
> > card
> >
> > I ranOn Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:36 -0600, Adam
> Porter wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:36:06 -0600
> > From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
> > To: Adam Lafayette <atomlbomb@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: xwindows ati rage 128 pro
> > Message-ID: <41FF1546.9000306@alphapapa.net>
> > References:
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> > You might try Knoppix and see how well it runs.
> That could give you an
> > idea of what to do.
>
> This is an excellent suggestion. My laptop's
> display cannot be
> correctly configured by FC3, Suse 9.2 or Sarge but
> works perfectly under
> all recent versions of Knoppix, and works with Sarge
> using the Knoppix
> config file. Boot Knoppix using the same kernel
> series that you are
> using with Debian (if memory serves, this is
> knoppix24 or knoppix26 at
I had an knoppix 3.2 cd and I downloaded
gamesknoppix3.7-0.1. Both lock up during boot while
probing scsi so I don't think this will help much.
> the boot prompt), and if it works, save
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 somewhere
> (floppy disk, ftp/sftp onto another machine, etc).
> Backup your
> Debian /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file, and replace it with
> the Knoppix
> version. Chances are, if Knoppix worked, this will
> work, and you will
> have a working X configuration.
I do have a live cd of dynebolic 1.3 that works and I
get 1024x768 but I don't know if its the same ver of
X. I can try your idea with dynebolic.
>
> > apt-get install x-window-system
> > apt-get install kde
> > apt-get install kdm
> >
> > when I tried startx
> > I got no screens found
> >
> > so I played with
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> >
> > trying different configurations.
> > I evetually got it to run X using the VGA driver.
> I
> > think it is giving me 640x480 at 8bit. The res is
> > crappy and I'm quite sure the video card and
> monitor
> > can do better res under gnu/linux. I installed a
> free
> > version of lindows on this machines a while ago
> just
> > because I wanted to try it and it was doing at
> least
> > 800x600.
>
> What's going on the the logs for X? If there is
> anything relevant you
> may want to post it...
Sorry I don't now which files to look at for the X
logs. I can do a search for .log files though.
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