hello laptopers, finally inherited an old laptop (hp omnibook 4100, with a pII-266 I think, and some other hardware to be discussed later on). Installed base woody system with the old Lordsutch netinst mini-cd, then upgraded to testing plus a tiny bit of unstable (blackdown) and one non-debian package (OpenOffice 1.1rc3). Just about everything seems to be running smoothly (well haven't set up apm yet, but haven't tried either), with one minor but pretty irritating exception, namely:
I can't get xfree86 to display properly. The laptop uses a NeoMagic video controller (MagicGraph 128XD, NM2160 according to lspci), but when I choose the neomagic driver in 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86', characters are horribly distorted. On the other hand, if I use the VESA driver, I get pretty clear display, but only on a small fraction of the screen. Contrary to what I expected from some archived posts from this list, this doesn't seem to change when I mess withthe monitor resolution in the config file or using dpkg-reconfigure. That is, I'd seen suggestions that other people having similar problems had caused those problems by setting the wrong monitor size. I tried about every possible combination with each of the two drivers, and in neither case could I solve the problem. Am I missing something? Any hints from people who use NeoMagic video cards or similar omnibooks? Or from anyone else? Thanks as usual for theh elp! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
