Can you run lspci -v so that we can know exactly what you have? 

-Derek

Eric Richardson wrote:

> 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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