I too have had some initial problems with Neomagic chips, but have not used the 2160. Anyway, someone got the 2160 working fine here: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/xfree-bsd.txt Also, the Inspiron 3200 page has an XF86Config and other goodies: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jcb35/linux/i3200.html#x Hope these links help, Damien
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:21, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > 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 -- Damien Solley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
