On Tuesday 07 June 2005 12:53 am, Paul Puschmann wrote: > Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > I installed Debian Sarge on an IBM R40 laptop. I have Knoppix and WinXP > > Pro on the other partitions. The problem I encountered during the > > installation was the screen not being configured correctly. The correct > > resolution is 1024 x 768, but it was configured at 640 x 480. Also, 3D > > acceleration did not work, though I've read reports of that working out > > of the box on an R40. > > > > I did the quick and easy option of stealing the XFree86Config-4 file from > > Knoppix. Display is fine, but still no 3D acceleration and it needs to be > > cleaned up by having unneeded lines deleted (such as some of the font > > addresses and possibly ModeLines?). > > Add > Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" > to the section "Device". > > Paul > -- Thanks for the suggestion. I just added that line to the config file and rebooted. No change. TuxRacer is still way too slow to be usable. 3D acceleration worked fine when I used it on this machine under Red Hat 9. I should have saved that config file before replacing it with Sarge.
Anything else I should try? Should I try dpkg-reconfigure? - Elmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
