Actually, I checked on a different web page of the same site, and the S3 Savage 4 was listed as supported for xfree86-3.3.6 (http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status27.html#27 ) so now I don't know what to tell you. On Sunday 02 September 2001 07:20 pm, you wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > I have, after a couple of days of trying, been able to get startx to work. > However, when my desktop appears, it seems to be zoomed in (i.e. all the > icons are huge, resolution is grainy, menus and windows are huge and won't > fit on screen, etc.). I have tried adding 800x600 and 640x480 modes by > re-running XF86Setup, but to no avail. Whenever I look at > /etc/X11/XF86Config, the only mode it has listed is 320x204. I even tried > editing XF86Config manually to add the 800x600 and 640x480 modes, but when > I started X I had the same problem (and ctl-alt-+ didn't do anything). > > I am running the potato release of Debian (and whatever version of XFree86 > that comes with that) on a custom-built system. My video card is a Savage4 > integrated into the motherboard (I selected S3 Savage4 (generic) on > XF86Setup) and my monitor supports 28 KHz - 70 KHz Horizontal and 40 Hz - > 120 Hz Vertical refresh rates. I selected 8 bpp for my default color depth > (I couldn't get X to work with 16 bpp for some reason). > > Any advice would be much appreciated. If you need any more information to > get a handle on the problem, I would be glad to provide it. > > Thanks, > > Mike Herrington > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
