Hi, I've just installed debian on a Presario 721CL. The installation was fine, but as usual, I am having trouble configuring X. The linux How-to pages claim that this used to be a black art but is now trivial because "there are no longer separate servers for different kinds of cards, just modules loaded by a common server." That sounds great...but what is the server?
Here is a bit about my installation. Starting with potato compact. After loading the network driver from the floppy and configuring the network stuff, I grabbed the rest of the distribution from unstable over the network. (I know, I know, but if having current versions of some software that I need, e.g. Python means I am going to have a few hour problem once every three years, I can live with that.) I chose advance package selection and then grabbed only xfree-86common, xdm and fvwm (above and beyond whatever is preselected). I also selected some of the packages that were suggested by xfree-86common. These were fonts and a few other things. In particular I chose the xserver-s3 package. I have no idea if this is correct. (Where can I find a table of xservers and chipsets?) Tech support at compaq claimed my video chipset is via KN133. The VIA site said about this chip "integrated s3 graphics savage4 agp 4x blah blah blah", hence I picked xserver-s3. In the package configuration I chose to manage the X server wrapper and the XFree86 3.x server config file with debconf. For the keyboard I chose PC104. (I now see I should have probably said PC101. The compaq site says the keyboard is 88key, 101 compatible.) I chose xfree86 keyboard rule set. For the mouse I chose /dev/psaux. There is a PS/2 mouse jack, which I am not using. I actually use the touchpad. And I chose PS/2 as best describes my mouse. (This should all be ok. If I do use a mouse it will be my simple PS/2 mouse.) Monitor: chose LCD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 24 bits per pixel. Again, the compaq site says the max resolution is 1024x768 and the color depth is 24b. That was the only resolution I allowed. That's about it. When setting X up in the past I've had problems with selecting the wrong server, the wrong mouse protocol and the wrong monitor resolution. Each of these problems caused the server to crash, or at least to fail. Can someone please give me a few hints? Basically, if someone out there is running X under Debian Linux on a Presario 721 and is willing to send out your config file and tell me what server you are using...that would be great! Thanks, Damon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
