John Joe wrote: >sound finally works! > >i compile sound as module and use sndconfig, it's OK. >Surely Debian is hard to use. > >
Excellent! I'm glad you got that working! >but X still does not work. > >though only 1M, it support 800x600 with 16bit color in >Win95. i could afford a new old card. i found an i740 >card on eachnet(China's ebay) for 57 yuan or $6, but i >don't want waste money. i play no 3d game, so 9680 is >enough, except for X 4.0? > >"horizontal and vertical settings" are filled >according monitor's manual, so it's not problem. > >let me repeat my trouble, i enter xinit, X starts, and >the background is OK, the only app (i install no >window manager) is xterm, but it has trouble. the >screen has several rectangles of xterm, their sizes >vary, i can see two prompt... in a nutshell, its >behavior is weird. > > > So have you tried changing from VESA to SVGA? Or even VGA? Also, have you tried cycling through the available resolutions with Ctrl-Alt-PlusOnTheNumberPad or Ctrl-Alt-MinusOnTheNumberPad? Also, you might try dropping the horizontal and vertical values; dropping shouldn't hurt your monitor, and can sometimes force X 4.x to use a different configuration that can produce different results. It's counter-intuitive, but it's worth a shot. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
