Hi all :) I just got the Debian 3.0 boxed set through the door and thought I had nothing better to do than throw it into my laptop. Booted from the CD, and it seemed to go straight into a graphical install. The only thing is, it seems to be an older X server (i.e. < 4.x) and my graphics card/bridge for the LCD wasn't supported until XFree 4ish (I think).
Now if I remember correctly I can get the older XFree's not to freeze if I can get it into framebuffer mode. Reading around the documentation etc. would suggest that this X server is already in Framebuffer mode! Now either I've made up the thing about getting the Xfree 3.something to work under FB or the X server isn't in FB mode. I can disable X and go into a text mode install by passing something like "vga=vga16:off" and get the base install done. Then the problem comes when I try to reboot from my harddrive, it goes back into a messed up X and I can't "ctrl+alt+bksp" kill the X server or "alt+Fx" to another text based console. I tried the rescue option from the install CD which falls over with a kernel panic for no apparent reason. Then I tried to edit lilo.conf from another boot CD and run sbin/lilo but the lilo in the debian install requires a version of GlibC :( and my boot CD doesn't have its own lilo! I'm stuck! How do I get it to boot into text mode and not graphical, I'm sure I can sort everything myself from there. p.s. I wonder if this is actually a graphical install at all, because before when I had X problems, it used to freeze my whole system and make the screen look like it was melting. This doesn't happen, I can toggle Caps on/off etc. and the screen doesn't freeze, instead white and blue vertical bars make nice dancing sequences on my screen. Cheers, Craig. -- Craig Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- misc _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
