Hi,
In order to get help you should attach your XF86Config
and your log (do startx 2>logfile to store it) then
one can get an idea about what is happening. upgrading
to 4.x.x would certainly help but might be complicated
for a newbie (I did not try yet to upgrade to 4.1.0
because I got 4.0.3 with RH 7.1)...
Cheers
Lionel
--- fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a newbie myself, so take all this with a huge
> grain of salt.
>
> I checked the xfree86 website (
> http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html ) and
> they listed only an S3 Savage 3D as being supported
> with xfree86-3.3.6, which
> according to the Debian website (
>
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
>
> ) is the version of xfree86 you have.
>
> Sorry. Hope I'm wrong about this.
>
> You can upgrade to the xfree86-4.1.0 version, the
> latest one, by following
> the instructions given on that website's location. I
> haven't tried this
> myself yet, but it's my next project.
>
> 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]
>
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