Felipe,
Thanks for responding...
It's using GLINT, which I believe is the one it
should be using. I even tried vesa, but that was
one of the cases where it wouldn't even come up.
Ed
Felipe Gallois wrote:
hello there,
what driver is your xorg using?
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
if it is using vesa, then your card's driver is not being loaded...
i can't count how many times this was the main problem for me =)
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 15:23, Ed Sutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
New to this list, and new to Debian. Just installed this over top of
an old installation of RH9, which worked fine, just a bit dated. My
machine is a K6-2, old but reliable.
I installed by creating a small install CD, booting from CD and then
basically letting it do its thing for an hour downloading stuff and
installing a fresh system. That all went well, I am able to log
into the console etc; however, the screen resolution is stuck at
640x480.
I've read through the archives and googled till my fingers are sore.
All the solutions I've seen say to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf either
manually
or by using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Then restart gdm.
Tried that several times, and I've gotten one of two results each time:
1) either it has no effect at all or
2) xserver won't even start up because its confused.
Bottom line, is that I can't do much at the console with a 640x480
resolution
because many of the dialog boxes span outside the window, and they
are not
moveable; hence, if I want to be able to use the GNOME environment
fruitfully
I need to get the resolution up.
I have a Permedia 2 graphics card and a Princeton 19" LCD display.
The auto-detect
in xserver-xorg seems to find that ok. They're both capable of
handling 1280x1024
and the xorg.conf file that is created by dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg shows that
this resolution is possible.
No matter what I do, I'm not able to get the screen resolution up.
It appears that
it is just defaulting to the bare minimum resolution for some
reason, but as far as
I can tell, the card and monitor are properly being detected.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Ed
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