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Re: X11 video spec/boot problems



'evening all,

having dabbled with various distros, as well as debian-related applications (fink), i decided that it was finally time to give the mighty debian a spin.

However, I am having problems starting up x11--despite going through xf86conf several times, and selecting the lowest requirements, as well as higher ones, when I run startx, i fade to black, and after a few moments, am spit out with
several warnings.

The odd part is, that I *can* boot up x11 if i run it using %startx -- -depth 8, but when i set the resolution to 8bit in xf86conf, I get the same error I have
always gotten so far.

the last errors i get have something to do with font rendering, before a signal
is caught..10 or 11, i believe - and then i get the standard bug report
request.

My hardware specs are:

powerbook g4, 12inch, 867mhz, 640mb of RAM, 60gb HD, with no macos--just pure
Debian. Video card should be an nvidia geforce, with 32mb of ram.


Any suggestions? Any help would be most appreciated.

-D

AFAIK the xf86conf utility creates a file called xf86config and debian uses xf86config-4 so you either need to copy the relevant parts of the xf86config file to the xf86config-4 file, or use the debian way dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Note this will only work if you have not manually edited the config file, if you have follow the instructions at the to of the file (/etc/X11/xf86config-4) before running dpkg-reconfigure.

You may also want to consider using the nv driver (or the nvidia driver for 3D) to get better depth settings anyway.

HTH

Wackojacko



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