At 10:09 AM 11/20/98 -0600, Kent West wrote: >At 07:50 AM 11/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >>I have been able to get it working in VGA mode, but am still unsuccessful in >>getting any more color depth. How do I get to the information above what I >>printed? My screen blanks out and then I see the last screen. Is there >>some way to scroll up to see the error messages that happened before the >>last screen? >> >>Bret Craw >>Maintenance Renewal
>Feel free to reply to me directly, but I suggest you also CC the >debian-user list; I'm not nearly as experienced/knowledgeable as many of >those folks. > >But to answer your question: I've found that you can generally do a >Shift-PgUp to recall the last 2 or 3 screens of info. It's a really handy >feature. > >Now that you know you can get VGA mode working, you might try backing up >your XF86Config file (just cp XF86Config XF86Config.bak in the /etc/X11 >directory) and then run XF86Setup, only this time go for the higher >resolution and deeper color depth. I don't recall off-hand exactly where >the color depth setting is, but it's either on the card setup page or the >monitor setup page, perhaps under the Advanced Options (or whatever button >it is). If you don't get usable results from this, you can always restore >you original XF86Config file. > PS. Don't forget to check the Xserver file; I don't think the config utilities change this for you. >>> XServer - the first line should point to the server you want to run >>> (XF86_SVGA or XF86_VGA16 or etc). So double-check that line.