Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
continuing blog i installed the x-server from woody, x starts up fine now, jeej! i guess this issue is closed, unless this was a bad idea. Thx for reading my ramblings, Jeroen On 06 Sep 2005, at 21:06, jeroen wrote: This is starting to look like a blog ;) I installed the kernel found on the

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
This is starting to look like a blog ;) I installed the kernel found on the previously mentioned page (http:// gefechtsdienst.de/uman/c1ve-general.html). It doesn't look really nice. Full screen console is built in but is shifted (not placed correctly, with white band down the screen). Start

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
Could have found what's causing the issue. I have no idea what he's talking about though... Looking in to it now, but any help is appreciated. Jeroen --- start quote --- Framebuffer/X notes New - I managed to replace the atyfb code of 2.4.27 with the one of 2.4.16. This means there

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Sorry if this came in double, the resend i did might have tricked your mail rules (it did trick mine) Jeroen On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns a "command not found" On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:25, Kent West wrote: jeroen wrote: I used apt to get me the fil

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >jeroen wrote: > > >>With my limited knowledge i though i could have forgotten to add a >>window manager >> >> > >I don't think so; this looks like a video sync -type issue. > > You can double-check this possibility by installing another wm ("aptitude install icewm", etc

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
jeroen wrote: > I used apt to get me the files i needed during the installation (i > did have to do an 'ifup -a' to get the network up - and still have to > after every reboot - but that's slightly OT here). Take a look at "/etc/network/interfaces" (also "man interfaces" for examples). Once con

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Lupton
jeroen wrote: Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so t