On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > What resolution are you getting? I think the default would be 320x200, in case a server fails to start in the mode specified.
Yes it was that. > Check that you are using the right server. Try SVGA first, then use more > video-card specific servers. > Andrew It should have been the right one. That Mattrox Millenium seems to be using SVGA. Someone suggested using ctl-alt-+(num) to switch between resolutions. That method never worked. There was only that one resolution available. There might be support for that card available in later xfree-debs, I'll see...? Someone suggested that. But yesterday night the whole system crashed again. There has been a strange problem with the machine. Sometimes while booting the power goes off suddently and then the whole system is unusable, because the whole file-system is broken then. It made it again... I'll try to install debian there once again later, I think (done 6 times already...). The machine is at my working place and there is a partition of 2 Gb available for debian installation. But I never found it out in the BIOS what to do for that sudden power-off. It is probably the case that from win it loads automaticly some setting for BIOS. I think that I forgot yesterday to shut off the machine completely before booting debian... Might have used from win 'reboot-computer'... and then loadlin after booting to dos-only. Debian is on the same hd as win and I'm using loadlin (couldn't get lilo working at all.) - hv
