On Monday 10 April 2006 10:41, Joseph Bishay wrote: > Hello, > > I hope everyone is doing well. > > We recently recieved a donation of 15 HP Vectra VL5 Series 5 > computers, none with hard drives. So of course I'd like to convert > them to clients. > > The issue is with the vide card. According to the BIOS summary > screen, it has installed an S3 2 MB video card. The HP manual says > that it is specifically a S3 Trio 64V2 Graphics Controller Chip. > > When I boot up the client, with xserver set to auto. I get a blank > screen when X should be starting. I can ctrl-alt-backspace it, and > I'll see text while it compiles the information from lts.conf and then > it will go back to the blank screen. > > If I ctrl-alt-+, it will show me a login screen where all the lines are > wavey. > > If I ctrl-alt-+ again, I will get a normal login screen, except that > it scrolls around when I move the mouse to the edges (seems like it's > trying to fit a 800x600 screen on a 640x480 monitor, for example). > > I've tried this with 2 different monitors, and I've tried it with > xserver set to s3 and s3visage or something (I'm sorry I don't have > the file in front of me) but the same thing happens > > What do I need to do to make it work? > > Thank you kindly. > Joseph 2MB RAM can *max* handle 16,777,216 bits, which works to: 1024 x 768 x 16bit 800 x 600 x 32bit There may be a limitation in the chip, but as I remember, those cards could do the full 1024x768x16 bit colour. X 4 may not have drivers for that chip, but if you set X_SERVER = vesa you might find that they work ok. I don't know of any card that detects VESA, but quite a few that work with it.
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