[OT] Re:apac video card
From: Debian User (debian-user_at_zerocrossings.com)
Date: 12/31/03
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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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