Debian installation postmortem

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Mark Berkwitt on 8/21/2002 11:20 as having spake thusly:
\_ I cannot say how all features are working but X has a problem.
\_ When I boot it automatically goes into X but the X window only
\_ occupies the bottom half of the monitor's screen. This is not a
\_ monitor adjustment issue; the visible part is highly
\_ magnified. 

The highly magnified part is usually a sign of having a 'large'
resolution specified and defaulting to a lower resolution mode.  (eg:
set up for 1024x768, but it starts up in 640x480).  Try using
ctrl-alt-<numkeypad-plus>  and c-a-<nk-minus>.  That should resolve
that.

\_ However, I don't recall ever being asked the size of my monitor.??

The newer X release (4.x) talk to smart monitors and get that for
you. 

\_ Ok, about that X server, when I <alt><ctrl><backspace> the server reboots
\_ with no change.  Also no change when I try to change resolution. I vaguely
\_ recall a list of servers or perhaps video cards. I didn't see the S3
\_ Trio64v+ card option so I just chose 'vga'.

Try picking a simpler S3 card.  Go to runlevel 3 as your default (set
/etc/inittab) while you're testing.  YMMV.

What might be potentially helpful in a few more go arounds:

Which X release you have.  (4 point ....)
What your XFree86 config file looks like.

David