On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 07:51:33PM +0000, nick wrote: > > > I don't know if this issue ios relevant but I have spent all day trying > to install debain on one of my primary partitions and so far have > succeeeded beautfully. When however I try to configure my video card it > will nor recognise it. I do not have the make at prsent and will lok ofr > it, but it would appear that some drivers are lacking. I use a Time > computer.
I don't recognize this. What is the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'? > I have tried to use the generic video driver as offered by the setup, > but the problemn seems to be the writing to disk of the /etc/xf86/config > directory, when the program tries to do this it fails.I trust you know > what fileI refer to. Exactly what is happening when it fails, and what are the error messages you see, or that are recorded in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Which version of debian are you installing? > Are there a set of drivers i coulkd use, inn thr distribution set, > that would enable video card tpo be recognised. Is it possible to set up > the xf86 configuration from the consol after writing the config file to > disk. You can edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config with a text editor such as nano in the console. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
