Hi,

I trying to get Xwindows on Debian Sarge 3.1r0a working on a Dell 
desktop and LCD 19"(I think) monitor. The Graphics chip is 82865G with 
shared memory, I think :-(. The display is a Dell 2001FP with AGP. I 
went throught the install and selected a few different resolutions and 
got the following error.

(EE) I810(0): No video BIOS modes for chosen depth.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

I reduced the bit depth from 24 to 16 and now it is running at 640x480 
and 16 bit according to xwininfo.
I ran xvinfo and it reports 1440x 1080 max depth 16.

I tried to run base-config again but I can't find the part that 
configures X but I didn't move /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 aside first.
I started to run dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-xserver and stopped because it 
was much more difficult than the install program.

I'd like to start from the installer config as I figure I might have 
selected something wrong such as sane pixels and bit depths.
I'm not sure what the program is in Sarge however.

Also I don't understand LCDs well: do they only do a couple of 
resolutions such as the 640x480 and the 1440x1080? Other people have 
this setup running windows so I could see what there system will do.

Since this is a shared memory graphics, do I need to do something 
special? It reported 206844KB available. What does this mean?

Any insight and help would be appreciated.

Eric



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