Thanks for your inputs Grant, but I still can't get it to work ... replies follow your inputs below:
-----Original Message----- From: Grant Grundler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:59 PM To: Harry Cochran Cc: Daniele Antonozzi; debian-hppa@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Graphics mode on my C3000 - close but no cigar On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:07:34PM -0400, Harry Cochran wrote: > Hi Daniele, > > I received and installed the Visualize EG/PCI card. I reloaded Debian from > scratch. I chose monitor resolution 1280x960 at 85Hz since there was no > 1280x1024 choice. The card certainly supports it. PCI Vis-EG/PCI will support up to 1600x1200 @ 60Hz (IIRC). Did you hit <tab> key when the system was powering up? Yes it reports GRAPHICS(3) type 2 (1280x1024 at 75Hz) > I chose gdm for the display manager because Grant told me > xdm had problems. Correct. But I personally don't use any Display Manager - only a primitive window manager. Do you know if gdm works? > I installed kernel-image-2.4.26-32 and did apt-get upgrade > (I had installed X on the original installation). The upgrade returned an > error 1 on installing xfont-scalable and I didn't know how to fix it. > Anyway, I proceeded to reboot (with pa con GRAPHICS(3) type 2) and X failed > to come up. I got a dialog box asking if I wanted to see what was wrong with > the X configuration and I said "Yes". This brought up a window which said > "Process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested" and a bunch of > XFree disclaimers. I have looked at /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 (when X fails, it > brings up the serial console) and I can't see anything obviously wrong. > At > this point I am requesting that you tell me exactly what you did to get you > C3000 running in Graphics mode please. Any idea about the error: "Setting up xfonts-scalable (4.3.0.dfsg.1-5) ... fmt: invalid line number increment: '0' dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I think you have alll the basic things in place. The resolution specified for the Section "Screen"/Subsection "Display" must exactly match what fbset reports. Okay. I installed fbset and fbset --test and fbset --show both report: mode: "1280x1024" geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 8 timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 rgba 8/0, 8/0, 8/0, 0/0 endmode I edited the Section "Screen"/Subsection "Display" of /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 and changed 1280x960 to 1280x1024 everywhere, so now the SubSection says: SubSection "Display" Depth n Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection for n=1,4,8,15,16,24 I assume the "8" fbset reports under geometry and rgba is 8 bit color. Is that right? I specfied 16bit color when I installed. Anyway I tried Default Depth 16 and Default Depth 8 and got the same result. Also, as I said, when I installed I picked 1280x960 at 85Hz because it was the closest thing on the list to 1280x1024 at 75Hz which is type 2. The Monitor Sections says: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 30-92 VertRefresh 50-85 Option "DPMS" Do I have to do something to get XF86Config-4 registered as you have to do with palo.conf after changing it? Have you read the PA-RISC Graphics HOW-TO? http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html Yes, I didn't find your write-up helpful beyond a certain point. hth, grant Thanks again for your help, Harry