My original linux box was a Packard Hell 486 SX 33 with 528k video board that ran X server - slow but ran. I even used Window Maker. I like punishment!! If you send me more details I try and help the best I can!!
Rod.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 10:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine > > Hi, > > I have installed debian slink on an old Packard Hell computer. Most > things work fine, but the standard XF86_SVGA xserver appears to have > some problems - it works, sort of, but once the screen gets busy I get > random pixels going the wrong color. It appears as if video memory is > sometimes getting randomly corrupted. If I was running windows, I would > suspect a bad video driver - but I'm not running a video driver. > > I am sure that this is a case of crappy hardware, but I also know that > windows managed to work around it somehow, so it can be done. > > Since the only documentation I have on the hardware is a sticker on the > box which says "1Mb video memory upgradable to 2Mb", I configured X by > accepting all the defaults I could find, and probing for anything it > would let me probe for. This, of course, is probably what went wrong. > > Does anyone have any tips on how I can figure out how X *should* have > been configured, or whether it would have been possible to use one of > the accelerated servers instead of the basic one? > > Thanks a million, > Stuart. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
