Re 3 newbie questions

2002-01-21 Thread Jean-Michel Deleu
I'm running Xfree3x and have tried both 15 & 16, as to passing kernel arguments they get joyously ignored (video=controlfb:vmode:17,cmode:15). As to using Woody, that's what i had ordered from the "official" Debian cd reseller and was told he couldn't fill the order (unavailable, too many cds e

Re: 3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 04:05, Jean-Michel Deleu wrote: > This might be the wrong place to post such evidently juvenile questions > but I haven't found any other suitable list. If anyone has another > suggestion please tell me. It's the right list, it has searchable archives though. ;) > I've in

Re: 3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Bailey
Derrik Pates wrote: What driver are you using in the XFree86 config? Are you using XFree 4.x or 3.x? If you're using the 'fbdev' driver with XFree 4.x, or the XF68_FBDev driver, then you may have to start the system with the appropriate options passed to the kernel so the frame buffer starts in

Re: 3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)

2002-01-20 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Jean-Michel Deleu wrote: > 1) I am having trouble setting the colour depth at 15 . Acording to > the Debian_Guide (in usr/doc) and according to numerous posts on several > usenet sites I should be able to do this using either XF86Setup, > xf86setup, xf86config. I cannot find