[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a Matrox mystique 220 videoboard. > I have used the xbase, xserver-svga ant the fonts from the bo-updates > directory > on the installation CD. > I have only installed the standard components in dselect (exept for the X11 > stuff). > > Has anyone experienced the same problems, or have the slightest idea of what's > wrong?
Yes. You have a Matrox mystique 220; that's what's wrong. Although XFree86 3.3.1 can handle this, Debian 1.3(.x) ships with xfree86 3.3, which can't handle this card. Fortunately, however, all is not lost; I have this card and was using it long before I upgraded to hamm. You can see a post of mine about how I did it by pointing your browser to: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9712/msg00142.html When I talk about the "standard XFree86 3.3.1" in that message, I mean the Linux XFree86 3.3.1 binaries available from ftp.xfree86.org. When I ask you to do an all-debian install of Xfree86 3.3 in there I mean the fonts packages, xbase, xserver-vga (yes, xserver-vga - which, by the way, you can run on the Mystique 220 right now without downloading anything - you just can't get better than 640x480), and at least one window manager (fvwm2 or fvwm95 are good ones to start with). As a side note, my Mystique 220 showed odd behavior in text mode when I first got it (characters would begin to drop or add pixels after a while until the entire screen went black with white squares) until I ran a (DOS-based) utility (downloaded from the Matrox site) to kick the flash bios. I pass this along to the list in case any has had that (remarkably odd) problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .