At Wednesday, 31 December 2003, you wrote: >i am trying to configure xfree86 w/ dpkg-reconfigure to work w/ an >old apac pci-bus video card. there is no apac driver available in >the list of drivers so i selected the vga driver, 16-bit color, and >the smallest screen size available. when gdm starts, the monitor >flashes between blank screen and the console. apparently, xserver >does not like my configuration. i read an xfree86-howto but this >hasn't lead me to my misconfiguration. > >does anyone have any suggestions as to what i may do to resolve this? >
it turns out the chipset is an s3 set and i configured that fine now. new problem :) startx starts the xserver just fine. i have no gnome environment installed ... so i have no access to the machine. how can i get around this??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
