Howard Mann wrote: > > Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find > > the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go. > > > > I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120 > > upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it. > > > > When I start X, I get a double-image, one atop the other (imagine > > squeezing your monitor's image to half-height, then making a > > xerox copy of it, then placing them so the bottom edge of the top > > image touches the top edge of the bottom image). > > > > I suggest you try the following : > > 1. Upgrade XFree86 to the latest version via http://www.debian.org/~vincent, > using apt-get >
Did that just after posting my messages. > > 2. Read : http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/cirrus.html for options you may have > to include in the XF86Config file. > Did that several times over the past couple of days. > > 3. Specify the XF86_SVGA x -server when you configure X. > > Did that. > Cheers, > > Howard Mann. Thanks anyway. I finally just pulled the card and replaced it with another old 1MB card I had lying around. The thing works great now! (I think I've developed a bad attitude toward Cirrus now.)
