> Is your kernel framebuffer-enabled? (when you boot do you see a little > penguin in the top left corner?) There is no penguin. I should be running a stock kernel. I've fiddled with compiling kernels, but I've never actually taken the last step and installed one. I'm new.
> Mind you will want to get them all at the same time, and you can't use > the menu-based helpers for this; you'll be sitting there in > /var/cache/apt/archives messing with dpkg -i. Ick. Let's put that idea aside for a while. > [xserver-common] Yes, I had noticed the speling problem. > curious you're not seeing the same menus Jeremy is; try reconfiguring > debconf itself, to show you the questions every time instead of hide the > ones you answered already. OK, I've reconfigured debconf and I will xserver-xfree86 a shot after undocking. I've got the laptop docked right now, and I'm using my ancient 3dfx PCI card instead of the built-in trident card. The 3dfx card seems happy using it's old, unmodified 4.1 XF86Config-4 file. I don't dock much when running linux and I've never bothered to fully debugg this configuration, so the mouse is skips around sometimes and I need to pick a different video mode since 1280x1024x32 is flickery at 60Hz. It would also be keen if I could use one XF86Config file for docked and undocked operations. That's for another day. One quick aside: How does X figure out which refresh rate to use? I see where I specify a range of refresh rates for the monitor. Does X lok at the range that I give for the monitor, then figure out what the highest refresh inside of that range is and use that? > Do you still have a copy of the XF86COnfig file from before the upgrade > got to it? Maybe it says how much vidram you really do have. I still have the old XF86Config file. I don't see any mention of "RAM" or "memory" in it. If you tell me what section or option to look for, I will spelunk some some. Windows 2000 insists the card has 4 MB. Another observation is that the color insanity is the worst in 24 bit, is slightly less insane in 16 bit and 8 bit seems almost OK (or maybe that's just the way 8 bit looks, I haven't run such a system for a very long time.) thanks, -d
