Larry Elmore wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > > > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > > > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but > > > it's a whole _lot_ nicer with it). > > > <SNIP> > There's some weird things going on with my BIOS, I guess. I've got an old > AT&T Globalyst pusrchased one week before they dropped out of the PC > business. It's been upgraded to the last available BIOS (as has the UDMA and > CD-RW drive), but there's something strange going on in there. > > I eventually ended up borrowing a 15" monitor and got Debian installed using > that, then putting the new video card and 20" monitor back, and I'm now > struggling to get X to work (if you don't pass the right command-line > arguments to XF86Setup, the display dies (and dies for all virtual consoles, > too)). > > Thanks to all for the informative responses to my question. > > Larry > > -- Just a tip: I've had *much* success using xf86config instead XF86Setup. Text-based, it will run on any system that can display anything at all. Quite convenient using strange 2nd hand hardware ;-) Good Luck Vitux
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