On Tuesday 16 August 2005 05:17 am, Anne Wilson mercilessly beat the
keyboard, and wrote:
| On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 04:13, Erylon Hines wrote:
| > When you asked before, I mentioned that the T20's that I installed on
| > had a Savage card, and the driver wasn't provided on 9.2. It seems
| > as though this may still be the case. If you type "startx" without
| > the quotes, and it doesn't go, you will have to configure your vid
| > card. To do this, type "su" and then the password for root when
| > prompted. Then type "xf86config", again without the quotes. Follow
| > the rather complicated instructions, and see if your Savage card is
| > in the list (still assuming it really is a savage). If not, choose
| > the generic video card, which has a max 640x480 resolution. After
| > completing, try the startx command again. If it starts, you are
| > going to need to go out to Google, and find the proper driver.
| > Sorry, I can't recall where I got it, but it works. And by the way,
| > the native screen resolution wasn't 1024x768, it was 1150 something
| > (I think).
|
| I don't think anyone mentioned that XFDrake runs from the command line
| and will help you sort out this sort of problem. Again, you need to su
| and give the root password. You may have to experiment with the
| capitalisation in the command - I can never remember it, but try it the
| way I typed it.
|
| Anne
|
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| 5:21:52 AM ET - 8/16/2005
The correct spelling is 'XFdrake' (no quotes). I could not remember either,
so I looked it up in the Remove Software utility. It is included in the
drakxtools-newt package.
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