Thanks for your thoughts. My video card is a VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] and I would be happy with a generic SVGA or framebuffer driver. I'm not a video gamer and high performance on my old system is oxymoronic. I wouldn't want to fry the video. I fried a USB port running a chess program on a thumb drive to spare the disk a lot of hashfile reads and writes. I don't wish to discover similar hardware weakness in my video. Yes, I should upgrade. John
-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 11/25/13, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: Subject: Re: install/run problems with Debian 7.1.0 To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Cc: "John" <alllta...@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, November 25, 2013, 4:54 PM (Adding submitter back into cc.) Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> (2013-11-25): > Let me try to translate the complaint into your terminology. > > I think he's complaining that the installer gets X configuration right > for its own use, but wrong for the installed system, where apparently X > gets it wrong, > > There's some plausibility to the claim that the installed system > *should* be able to get things as right as the installer. > Maybe this isn't as much an installer problem than an installed systen > problemm. Presumably whatever code the installer uses at install > time should also be part of X, or whatever setup happens at boot > time. > > It' a bit ironic that the complaint should be against the piece of code > that actually does get it right, but I guess that's life. d-i uses fbdev (on linux, vesa on kfreebsd), which is generic but not efficient at all. The same could be used in the installed system, but X uses whatever is more suitable (usually: intel, radeon, or nouveau). They tend to do a lot more things, to have a huge codebase, and to have bugs (and/or trigger kernel-side bugs). Get a bug reported there, done: http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html Mraw, KiBi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1385528370.31904.yahoomailba...@web162402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com