[OT] Re:apac video card

From: Debian User (debian-user_at_zerocrossings.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:38:12 -0500

    At Wednesday, 31 December 2003, you wrote:

    >i am trying to configure xfree86 w/ dpkg-reconfigure to work w/ an
    >old apac pci-bus video card. there is no apac driver available in
    >the list of drivers so i selected the vga driver, 16-bit color, and
    >the smallest screen size available. when gdm starts, the monitor
    >flashes between blank screen and the console. apparently, xserver
    >does not like my configuration. i read an xfree86-howto but this
    >hasn't lead me to my misconfiguration.
    >
    >does anyone have any suggestions as to what i may do to resolve this?
    >

    it turns out the chipset is an s3 set and i configured that fine now.

    new problem :)

    startx starts the xserver just fine. i have no gnome environment
    installed ... so i have no access to the machine. how can i get around
    this??? 

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