Mike S, your solution worked! I've successfully loaded XF86 with my ATI Rage Mobility 128 AGP, and I'm running Debian/sarge with KDE 3.3.2. Thanks a lot! Now I just have to wipe my harddrive and install only Debian (as Ubuntu takes up a huge partition, but is now useless). Thanks!!
On 5/25/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike S wrote: > > > Mauro wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 05:39 +0000, Nathan Thrower wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Would I be able to run Xorg instead of XF86 with Debian Sarge? I can > >>> use Ubuntu fine, and I know that runs Xorg. When using "apt-get > >>> install x-window-system", could I concievably use "apt-get install > >>> xorg" or something instead? If so, this could work. > >>> > >> > >> > >> Sure, you'd have to find out how to update your sources.list with the > >> right repository. You might as well just install ubuntu for that matter > >> and avoid possible breakages. > >> > >> As for working with what you got, you sure you have the sync rates > >> correct? The driver? > >> > >> Lastly, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 a few times with different > >> settings and try to run X. > >> If you only have one video card, don't specify it in XF86.config-4 > >> > >> Other than that I'm out of ideas. Is this a pegasos? I don't know > >> anything about this subset arch. > >> > >> Night > >> > >> > >> > >> > > this is something I would conceivably want to do when I go back to > > Debian, so please let me know how it works. And I would think that if > > you installed Hoary from cdrom that you could mv your > > etc/apt/sources.list aside, create a new blank one and then use > > apt-cdrom, that's what I would try. > > > > --Mike S > > > > > I don't know why I didn't think of this before, as it was suggested to > me personally just a few months ago. If you have a livecd that you can > boot and get an xorg session in, do that, then copy the > /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your hard drive. Reboot into debian, and use the > screen settings from that in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file or whatever > it's named. Me peprsonally when I take the plunge back to Debian, I am > just going to try and use the whole thing first (renaming xorg.conf > appropriately), and then go from there. > > --Mike S >
