Hi, after I got my web server up and running, I was encouraged to try another challenge: To give my old laptop, an aging Dell Latitude CPi266XT, a new life with Woody.
Everything worked fine until I started messing around with the GUI, which initially came up with an 800 by 600 resolution that looked awful on the 1024x768 LCD. I then tried to manually change some of the settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, notably the color-depth which I initially had set to 24 bits but actually is only 16 bits. I've run the "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" utility for a number of times from a remote tty with various options and subsequent reboots, but I end up with a black screen unless I use the kernel framebuffer, in which case I get a beautiful 1024 by 768 desktop where nothing happens. In every case, an inspection with top from the remote tty shows that the XFree86 process slurps 98% of the system resources. The video controller is a NeoMagic 2160 with 2MB RAM. It works ok with Windows 2000. I'm totally in the dark here. Can anybody offer a hint? regards, -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ mail to leif at solumslekt dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
