Derek Neighbors wrote:
>Can you run lspci -v so that we can know exactly what you have?
>
>-Derek
>
Sorry, the machine is at work so I'll have to get back later.
I haven't worked for someone else in awhile. Can I send a message to
this list from a yahoo address and use my list address as a reply to?
Will it get to this list?
Eric
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>Eric Richardson wrote:
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>>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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