Hi Doug, Thank you for the suggestion, I changed the color depth to 8 and now x starts right up. I am running KDE and it works very well, maybe a little slow considering this is a 712/100 with 128M ram, but it is very useful.
Another problem has cropped up, it is with my mouse, I need to check the settings. Sometimes the mouse locks up and I have to restart the machine. Anybody have any suggestions? Now I know that Debian Woody works on this machine, I have another 712/100 to install Woody on. Thank you for the help Doug. James E. Merritt -----Original Message----- From: B. Douglas Hilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: X windows won't work I would guess that you are set to the wrong color depth. Most of the HP graphics cards only work in 8bpp right now. Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for a line like "DefaultColorDepth" and make sure it is "8" - Doug James E. Merritt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I don't know if this is the right list, if not then tell me where to send > this information. > > I am having a problem with Woody for hppa. It won't let me run X windows. > When the computer gets to the point of starting the xserver on bootup, the > screen blinks a few times then gives me the text only mode. Typing "startx" > does the same thing then says: > > (screen full of video drivers and other things) > FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument > > Fatal server error: > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 > > I have the log file from "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", I can post it if anyone > wants/needs to see it. > > I appreciate any help in getting this resolved or any pointers t where I can > get some help. > > Thank you and have a nice day!! > > James E. Merritt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
