I did at your suggestion. And it worked - thanks. I now have a display, although low res and distorted. Another person suggested it was probably sync rates - so, my monitor is a Compaq Presario MV500. I've been to their web page and can find no specifics on horizontal and verticle refresh rates. Can anyone help?
On 25 May 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:35, Russ Cook wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's > > windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine). > > I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but > > could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro. > > > > The sympton is that when I run startx, the screen goes black. > > It doesn't fault out and return to text mode - it just remains > > black. I've identified the window manager to use, and have tried > > changing the window manager. I've attached the XFree86 log file. > > > > I have XWindows successfully running on another machine, with > > a different video card. > > > > Can anyone help? > > Have you tried "XFree86 -configure" then "XFree86 -xf86config <whatever > it called the resultant file>" as root? > > This was the only way I got XFree86 4.2 to talk sense to the ATI Rage > 128 Ultra TF in the Dell Optiplex GX240 at work. > > Take care, > > Peter. > > -- > Peter Whysall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
