The best way to get help with X is to post your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Also you might have better luck using the graphical setuptool XF86Setup. You need to have xserver-vga installed to use this.
Brian W. Carver wrote: > Hi, > > I have never installed linux before, unless you count SuSE Live Eval 7.3 > (the cd-rom thing), but I spent most of Monday dragging Debian 2.2 r5 > potato kicking and screaming onto my desktop. I've made it a long way, > but I may finally be stuck and cannot find suitable answers in the > archive. First a summary of my system and my current problems and then > a recap of what I learned in the install process for the benefit of > posterity. Sorry for the length, but I hope it will help someone figure > out my problems and help others searching for similar solutions. > > My desktop is mostly a Sony PCV-220 Pentium II 266Mhz with the Intel > AL440LX motherboard running the latest BIOS (14) from Intel. It's got > the original ATI 3D Rage Pro Graphics card with 4MB ram and the original > PCI ESS Maestro-1 sound card. The original 8GB Maxtor Hard Drive is > Primary Master and a new 60GB Maxtor HD is Primary slave. The faceless > floppy was replaced when everything got put in a new case and the > Secondary Master is a CD-RW drive from I/OMagic or something. I've put > 384MB of Simple Tech RAM (the max) on it. I still use the original Sony > Keyboard and the original Sony PS/2 mouse. The monitor is Sony > CPD-220VS. > > I've been installing Debian on the new 60GB hard drive exclusively, > keeping my Win95 on the old HD. I have to boot with the floppy disk as > holding down shift as suggested doesn't seem to bring up any boot > options. I have 4 partitions a small boot one a 256MB root one a 384MB > swap one and a nearly 60 GB usr partition. I seem to do the total > re-install over again about every 2 hours, so if someone thinks those > partitions are bad for some reason, I welcome suggestions. > > MY PROBLEM: I got the PS/2 mouse to work in the XFree86 setup by > choosing dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse, and it worked perfectly during > THAT setup routine. BUT, when I now boot into X (man was that an > accomplishment!) the mouse won't move at all at first and then when I > try to move it, it is very erratic, jumping all over the screen and > clicking buttons when I don't click. I've tried using the xmseconfig (I > have to hit F12 to get a drop down menu and then use the arrow keys and > tab to navigate X right now) but setting it up just like I did in shell > mode doesn't work. I found in the archive a suggestion that gpm was at > fault and it suggested doing: dpkg -p gpm and purging gpm out > completely. I did this but no effect. Also, I've tried running > xf86config now that I've purged gpm, but no help. In fact it made > things worse: > > MY 2nd PROBLEM: When running xf86config I did something that screwed up > the resolution as all the text in X looks really grainy now. I thought > I picked the same options as when I was in the other XFree86 config > program (that the CDs run, what is that called by the way, and can I run > it without doing the whole bloody install a sixth time?) My monitor can > do 30-70kHz Horizontal and 50-120Hz vertical. 1024x768 @85Hz is my > preferred resolution, but it can handle 1280x1024 @60Hz. I give it > these custom ranges and I set up all the color depth options with the > first 3 at just 640x480 and 32bpp or whatever it is with 1024x768 > 800x600 and 640x480 in that order. (432) What do I run/do to get the > graphics looking right again? > > What I learned that may help others: > There's something about that ATI 3D Rage Pro card that XFree86 does not > like at all. (I finally found something to this effect in the archives.) > For a long time all I could get when trying to write the XF86config file > was _X11TransSocketUnixXonnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 (9x) and then > Unable to communicate with X server! and this would start over and > over. I did CTRL-BREAK to get out of that and let everything else > install and then just kept trying to redo the XFree86 and it was funny, > I would get a little closer every time. My main advice is just keep > re-installing XFree86 and somehow it eventually works. You absolutely > must write down that crazy Vertical and Horizontal scan range for your > monitor though. You cannot BS on that step. > > Also that a PS/2 mouse has to be dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse took me > forever to figure out. (And as described above it still doesn't work in > X). > > I guess my last piece of advice is that on this most recent install I > picked the bare minimum in the simple package setup. (I also feel that > whatever you do, as a newbie, you should never pick advanced. You will > basically guarantee that you're going to have to do the whole thing > over. That's what happened to me.) All I selected in the simple mode > was the gnome stuff and the x stuff. Install the other packages once > you get a basic graphical interface working. I'm still not there > myself, and I'd appreciate any help with my mouse and screen resolution > issues. Thanks. > > P.S. My inexperience means that telling me to install foo won't help at > all. You have to say where foo is, how I'd find it from a bash shell and > exactly what I type to install it. I appreciate the verbosity. -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
