On 16 Aug 2001 22:10:50 +0200, Martin Sk?tt wrote: > Hi, > I just bought an 800 MHz IBM T22 with 14.1" TFT and a S3 Savage IX > video chip. I have installed Debian testing on it with a custom 2.4.5 > kernel with the XFS patch from SGI. Everything seems to work nicely > except X. I use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to configure X, but > I get a very strange image on the screen when I run startx. It look > like it's black and white and there are a lot of vertical lines down > the screen. I'm trying to run it in 1024x768, but I have seen a lot of > people on net mention that they are using 1400x1050, but changeing my > X config file to match that didn't help a bit. > Can anyone help to get X up and running? > It's very sad to have used a lot of money on a laptop to run Linux on and > then only text mode is working :-)
Please include said /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Have you checked www.linux-laptop.net for additional horror stories/ tips and tricks? --mike
