[CLUE-Tech] X on Woody

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 02-12 12:38, mgushee at havenrock.com wrote:
> On 12 Feb 2003 at 12:12, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > X opens up and I have the black and white background, with no cursor. So now
> > I have to ask: is XFree86 -configure the usual way to set up X on Debian?
> 
> Do you mean xfree86config? Yes. But I would suggest trying xf86setup. It 
> gives you a primitive GUI in a low-res XSession, and allows you to test 
> settings before committing them.

Hmm. I don't seem to have xfree86config or xf86setup. I'm re-running
updatedb to be sure. I already checked dselect for anything obvious. I did
find a xf86cfg binary, though. It seemed to hang my machine. Of course,
since it's such a slow machine, it's hard to be certain. :)
 
> > Maybe my video card is just so old and/or crappy that I need to do something
> > special? At one point, I did have RH on this box, so I know it should work.
> > ....
> > FWIW, the video board is detected as an S3 864 by XFree86 -configure.
> 
> Well, is that what it actually is? If so, that may be part of the problem. For 
> whatever reason, some older S3 cards that were supported well by XFree86 
> 3.x are not supported 4.x. I had one of those myself, and finally had to 
> break down and buy a new video card in order to upgrade XFree86.

This may be the way to go...I'm setting this box up to try out Freevo and
MythTV - and I will need a video card with TV out, anyway, so maybe I'll
wait until I have such a card before I bother with setting up X.

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