Hello list! i recently helped my father to install debian (potato r0) on his box. everything was fine, but X is a problem. i have to say this was ever a problem since he upgraded his graphic card to a hercules 3d prophet which is using the geforce MX chipset. he tried mandrake before but when it comes to auto detection, it damages the display (not physically of course) so i can't even use the textmode anymore. this is really ugly... now with debian there is a similar problem. i used XF86Setup. in "cards", i used the details, not one of the list and left everything on probing. after starting the x server, everything was foobared again... i know, that the geforce MX ist NOT supported with xfree 3 but i still think it should be possible to run x in a kind of compatiblity mode isn't it?? i don't care about all the fancy geforce features (in fact my father's favorite game is nethack, so he's not in a hurry to install x, but it would be really nice to show him the great new kde2 desktop!), but it should be able to render 1024*768 with 32 bit colors in a reasonable speed. what does i have to do exactly to make this work? btw, it already worked using the VGA16 server and a generic vga driver. but 640*480 is not a sollution ;) i hope i can show him now how great the debian support is.. :))
-Daniel
