Hello Eric, Do you have any details on the video card? especially, how much RAM it has on it? As you are already getting a text display, I think that you are already effectively using a vga resolution and one of the standard vga modes (640x480) should work, but you may be trying to use a greater bit depth than the card supports.
I think the timing ranges in /etc/XF86Config are only required for muti-sync monitors operating outside vga ranges, so you shouldn't have to change them with this kit - it doesn't sound like exotic h/w. What happens when you try to run X? On 22-Feb-00, you wrote: EH> Can anyone help with this or at least tell me if it's EH> not feasible? EH> EH> --- Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EH>> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:40:20 -0800 (PST) EH>> From: Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> EH>> Subject: Configuring x-windows for EGA EH>> To: Debian User Lists User Lists EH>> <debian-user@lists.debian.org> EH>> EH>> I'm trying to get a 486dx set up with X-windows. The EH>> monitor I'm using is a NEC Multisynch JC1401-P3A EGA EH>> that was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was peaking EH>> in popularity (in the U.S. at least, before Oliver EH>> North eclipsed him; no I'm not kidding :). I have EH>> installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a 500 meg hard drive and EH>> am now trying to get X Windows configured using the EH>> text based install utility, because the graphical EH>> setup uses VGA by default and that is (apparently) EH>> too EH>> much for this dinosaur to handle. EH>> EH>> Anyway, I am now at the menu where you choose the EH>> horizontal synch range for the monitor. All the EH>> choices available to me, save one are for VGA EH>> monitors. The last choice allows me to put in a EH>> range EH>> of my own. What should I put in? EH>> EH>> Then, when it asks me about the vertical range, what EH>> should I put in for that? EH>> EH>> BTW the back of the monitor says it's rated for 120 EH>> volts at 60hz, and it appears to have jumpers for EH>> color settings. If any other details would be EH>> helpful, EH>> please let me know. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something.
