On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:54:20AM +0200, Remi BERNHARD wrote: > > >It looks like you are trying to run XF3.6 and not 4.1. Any reason for > >that? > > Yes, there is a reason, I first tried with "auto" , but i failed saying it > cannot recognize the video card.
That only means that you don't have a (supported) PCI graphics card. ISA cards cannot be automatically recognised, but many of them are of course supported by X version 4+. > I have a Laptop Compaq LTE Elite 4/40C. Any idea how to setup this "oldie" > ... ? > > > >Two things you can do, in the lts.conf file set the workstations XSERVER > >to auto, or download and install the lts-xf86-svga file (deb, rpm, or > >tgz) and install that. The first way is the best, but if it still > >complains/fails then put the file in as your workstation requires xf3.6 > >and wont use 4.1. > > I'm not shure that the video card is SGVA - capable. When I boot on windows > 95, it can only go to 800 x 600; 256 colors, and nothing else : it's only > VGA I guess. AFAIK VGA is limited to 16 colors, 256 colors is SVGA. What does MS Windows tell you about the chip? -- Hans Ekbrand
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