Hi, I have spent the last few hours installing debian testing on a brand new dell inspiron laptop and have managed to get it very close to working properly. I am however, having two problems that are throwing me off both to do with the display.
The first is that every second time I load linux up, it shrinks the screen size to the center. I have a 15" screen but it only uses the center (maybe 12" or something - looked like 640x480 or something). When I reboot, the bios post screen is *also* this size and so is the grub screen. However, when it goes into linux the next time, it will resize it to the proper size. This just keeps on alternating. I have built a kernel (2.4.20) manually (make bzImage) and I can post the config if anyone is interested. I am *not* using a framebuffer device. The display card is an NVidia Geforce 2 The second problem that I am having may or may not be related to the above and is that once the xserve-xfree86 has been run, the consoles 1-6 dont display properly anymore - there is serious flicker there. I wonder if this might even damage the TFT. I also noticed that installing xserver-xfree86 did not install all of the necessary files that we necessary like xfonts-base and xbase-clients. Would this just be because I was silly in running apt-get install xserver-xfree86 instead of using dselect ? Has anyone met with the strange behaviour of the TFT before ? One thing to mention is that I used 2.2.20-idepci kernel to boot the installation and compile the new kernel all the time with no problems with screen shrinking or anything like that. I did not however, run the xserver on that so cant say if the terminal display corruption is due to the new kernel. I am sure that I have enabled an option that I shouldnt have or not enabled on I should have but having recompiled it a few times, havent found the right combination. Any and all help or pointers very much appreciated. Thank you for your time, Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
