On (20/02/04 08:26), Christopher Gill wrote: > Greetings, all. > > I just installed Debian for the first time Wednesday evening (and joined > this list Thursday afternoon). I have Woody/3.0 running on a 7200/75, > booting from 'quik'. I used the bootX MacOS utility running from the > second hard disk to install and boot, getting me to mac-fdisk and tasksel > and dselect using apt-get. > > All I need to do now is get XFree86 to work. I'm using the built-in 1MB > VRAM video hardware and an old 16" Color Display (fixed-frequency @ > 832x624) Apple monitor. Before I start posting entire log files, is > there anyone who has tips on getting my video hardware combination to > work with Debian/XFree86 based on just this excerpt? > > ==> > > (II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode > (**) FBDev(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 > (==) FBDev(0): RGB weight 565 > (==) FBDev(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) FBDev(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (II) FBDev(0): Hardware: platinum (vidmem: 1024k) > (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device... > (II) FBDev(0): mode "800x600" ok > (II) FBDev(0): mode "640x480" test failed > (II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against monitor... > (--) FBDev(0): Virtual size is 832x624 (pitch 832) > (**) FBDev(0): Built-in mode "current": 57.6 MHz, 50.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz > (II) FBDev(0): Modeline "current" 57.60 832 880 944 1152 624 625 628 > 667 -hsync -vsync -csync > (++) FBDev(0): DPI set to (100, 100) > (II) Loading sub module "fb" > (II) LoadModule: "fb" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a > (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 > (**) FBDev(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" > (II) Loading sub module "shadow" > (II) LoadModule: "shadow" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a > (II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 Everything on this excerpt looks fine. The lines to look at are those that begin (EE).
Incidentally, it is better not to highjack an existing thread but start a new one. Many people use MUA's that support threading and find it frustrating. Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business
