Hi!
> Pozdrav ! > > I have some problems during the configuration of Xfree86. I'm guessing that > problem is in video card and monitor configuration. I have ATI 3D > Xpression+PC2TV 4MB and ADI ProVista E44 15" monitor. I chooseright video > card prom the card list and enter the right horizontal and vertical > frequencies numbers and when I click on DONE then when he tries to do > whatever he needs to, I wait for a minute or so, and all I get is black > screen, then I do alt+f1 and it says something like 'unable to connect to x > server' and then he tries one more time but with the same results. What > should I do? > I installed xserver-mach64, vga and svga xservers with dselect. > /etc/X11/Xserver exist line with /usr/bin/X11/XF86_Mach64. What is debian > distro? Could anyone send me a copy of his own XF86Config file if has the > same or so card as I have? I tried to copy XF86Config file in /etc/, which > I created a long time ago with MiniLinux and it worked there, but I just the configs for X11 are in /etc/X11/ - so it is for the XF86Config, too > couldn't, like I haven't even write cp ... Yes, I'm logged as root. Where > can I, if neccessery, downoad newer version of Xfree86, and how do I know > which version do I have? dpkg -l "<packagename>" will show the version newer XFree-packages can be found at ftp.de.debian.org - i suppose you´ve hamm (debian 2.0) installed - so you´ll find a newer in /debian/dists/slink (frozen) but be careful some packages are possibly broken (because of frozen - pre release - stadium of slink (debian 2.1)) > > Thanx a lot ! > > P.S. another question. I had kernel version 1.3 and I succesfully upgrade > it to 2.0.33, but as I am booting linux from floppy disk on which is old > kernel, how do I create a new floppy disk with the new kernel? > try "mkboot" - it creates a new boot-disk based on the actual kernel -- until next mail ;) . ___ ---___ .--. ./ - / \ ___ ( DEBIAN `- |O O | | | ; --. | | |___| : GNU/Linux _- |<_) \. | __ eter | - / | || | `. www.debian.org / ' .\. ||__| ` --- . ___ .. ' | . .| | | artosch | .. .\. |___| / . ..| /,\ .__\ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | o| | | |O (| / student of technical computer science \.. \____\ / university of applied sciences krefeld (germany) \__/ \_/