Re: grub works now but xorg struggles a bit on old box....

2007-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:29:32 + "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things looked good until I got to xorg. It wouldn't fire up because > the old ATI Mach 64 graphics card driver can't support 24 depth.. > > The actual error was ATI(0) driver can't support 24 depth > >

grub works now but xorg struggles a bit on old box....

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I followed the advice of earlier postings concerning fixing my GRUB problem when installing Etch on an old Gateway 2000 box. I tried manually partitioning the 13GB drive to put a boot partition at the start of the disk separate from a root one and a swap partition. I think