Re: Compaq Armada V300 and X
> If you have any version of windows installed then that will tell you the type > of > video card your laptop has. Otherwise, have a look at your screen as your > laptop is booting, sometimes the video card prints info to screen just before > the bios information is displayed (you have to be a very fast reader though). There are two different questions here, the video card (chipset) and the capabilities of the monitor. For the card, SuperProbe is the definitive answer. That will tell you what server to expect to use. Just bear in mind that for some chipsetws, the SVGA or framebuffer driver may be a choice as well as the matching accel server. SVGA should work but might be crappy. It won't work on 8514 cards but I don't believe I've seen one of those on a laptop. > If you have any manuals for the laptop, then have a look, otherwise go to the > Compaq web site. Hopefully then have a support area where you can get the > specifications of your laptop. In addition to the name of the great multimedia video widget they selected... The keywords you are looking for are Vertical Refresh and Horizontal Sync. If it gives you those as values or ranges, you can plug them into one of the config apps (or even straight into /etc/X11/XF86Config) and know that your server will not try to do anything that your monitor will consider out of spec. Otherwise I hope their tech support is worth it. It may or may not be possible to get this info from the MSwin side of the world (most people don't know to look in Control Panel/devices, and some monitor drivers might not mention) > Once you have the video card name and manufacturer, use XF86Setup (or > xf86config) and select the type of card you want. Doing this in XF86Setup > will > automatically set the correct driver for you or tell you that it is not > installed (by name so that you can install it). Beware of mismatches though, there are a HUGE number of ATI shipsets, most of whose names are quite similar. > Hope this helps. > John. > > Heino Heikkinen wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I have Compaq Armada V300 and have installed just Debian Slink. > > I have problems with X, just wonder which server is > > valid? Display don't works properly now. I tried several servers > > like Mach64, VGA ... > > > > - Hemppa- Good luck! * Heather
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Hi John, On 07-Mar-2000 John Stevenson wrote: > Any chance you can share your extra stuff that you use in tandem with > netenv?? I use netenv to change the network settings, but there are > environment settings I want to change (and daemons to re-run), without doing > anything manually. Sure, no problem with that. What I'm doing is using the NETENV_SCRIPT-variable to run a perl-script. That script does all the stuff like using the right XF86Config or gpm.conf. Right now I have a script for every netenv-environment which seems some kind of odd to me - if I need a script for every environment anyway I sould be able to integrate it in netenv itself. That's why I'm actually thinking of replacing netenv. I guess the basic idea is quite okay but I need my profiles to be a lot more diversified (e.g. sometimes I have an ext. mouse or need MySQL, ...) So when switching profiles (especially at runtime) I don't want to go through the whole startup-process - I just want to make small changes. For accomplishing this, I have to keep track of the current state of the machine. These are just my rough thoughts, feel free to tear them down or bring in new ones. > I am not a perl programmer, but could help out with bug testing in return And that would be greatly appreciated. After staying in Canada for half a year now I'm heading home to Germany next week. So right now I'm a *little* bit busy getting all my stuff in bags and packs ... Feel free to contact me via eMail but it might take some time for me to respond. Bye, Tobias PS: I don't know which eMail-address of mine you have but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a safe one. --- Tobias Bachmor Department of Computer Science Concordia University at Montreal/Canada Date: 07-Mar-2000Time: 21:56:48 ---
Re: Compaq Armada V300 and X
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:53:37PM -0800, Heather wrote: > There are two different questions here, the video card (chipset) and the > capabilities of the monitor. > > For the card, SuperProbe is the definitive answer. That will tell you what > server to expect to use. Just bear in mind that for some chipsetws, the SVGA > or framebuffer driver may be a choice as well as the matching accel server. What about "lspci -v" or "cat /proc/pci"? These usually tell you quite enough about the graphics card, as long as it's a PCI or AGP card. They're also quite harmless, fast, and work on any Linux kernel with PCI support (/proc/pci is the old interface, lspci from the pciutils package is for 2.2 or later). Unfortunately, monitors are more tricky on laptops. Try the options you can access in XF86Setup or xf86config, and see if you can get it working at the proper resolution. For x86 PCs with external monitors, you can often get a clue about the monitor by using read-edid from http://altern.org/vii/programs/linux/read-edid/ Creating your own modelines is pretty easy to do with tools like kvideogen ( http://without.netpedia.net/kvideogen/ ) or modeline ( http://home.kvalito.no/~bragthor/files/files.shtml ).
what is "standard" installation?
Hi, I installed Debian's base on my gold old P75 notebook. But got lost in determine which packages constitute a "standard" installation as mentioned in the "Guide", which are necessary before installing xfree86. there are so many of them, can any insider give me some hints what to take? My harddrive could explode if I have to install all of them. Thank you Ben
Re: what is "standard" installation?
A quick place to start is by selecting the 'xbase-client' and then you should get a list of dependancies. This will install most of the stuff you need for a basic X install. Just make sure you get the right 'xserver-??' packages, you should probably get the 'xserver-svga' and/or 'xserver-vga'. You should also select a window manager. Blackbox or sawmill seem to be light but modern, enlightenment is very nice but much larger... Hope this helps.. Johnny. "Benjamin F. Zhou" wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian's base on my gold old P75 notebook. But got lost in > determine which packages constitute a "standard" installation as > mentioned in the "Guide", which are necessary before installing xfree86. > > there are so many of them, can any insider give me some hints what to > take? My harddrive could explode if I have to install all of them. > > Thank you > > Ben > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: what is "standard" installation?
Hi John, thank you for pointing me a start point for x-windows. But do I need to install first a lot of non-X related stuffs before this x-start point? If yes, what are they? thank you. Ben On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > A quick place to start is by selecting the 'xbase-client' and then you should > get a list of dependancies. This will install most of the stuff you need for > a > basic X install. Just make sure you get the right 'xserver-??' packages, you > should probably get the 'xserver-svga' and/or 'xserver-vga'. > > You should also select a window manager. Blackbox or sawmill seem to be light > but modern, enlightenment is very nice but much larger... > > Hope this helps.. > Johnny. > > > "Benjamin F. Zhou" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I installed Debian's base on my gold old P75 notebook. But got lost in > > determine which packages constitute a "standard" installation as > > mentioned in the "Guide", which are necessary before installing xfree86. > > > > there are so many of them, can any insider give me some hints what to > > take? My harddrive could explode if I have to install all of them. > > > > Thank you > > > > Ben > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: what is "standard" installation?
Hi, The Standard System in debian is defined as: - all "required" packages - all "important" packages, and - all "standard" packages. It does -not- include (but you are welcome to install some of them anyway): - any "optional" packages, or - any "extra" packages. As versions come and go, things are moved around, added or removed. Check the package list in dselect or look at the packages files directly to find out what is where in the particular version of debian you installed (or are thinking about installing) on your computer. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/
