I had the EXACT same problem. Maybe a bug should be written up?
Oleg Krivosheev helped me out wonderfully.
The solution for me was getting a config file from Oleg Krivosheev who had the
same
graphics card as I had and get the latest SVGA server. By the way, I have a
6330
Hewlett Packard Pavilion which has a SiS 5598, 2 Meg of video memory available
(up to
4, but the BIOS is set for 2).
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The following are the directions he gave me:
Hi again
That'd be great. If you there is any way you could share what choices I
should of made in xf86config or whatever, that would be good too. That way,
I
can understand better. I appreciate your help,
Michael
there is no way to get something out of xf86config, 'cause
all we have now is XF3.3.2 based. ( I have no idea what he meant by that, but
it did
not matter. His help was great!)
ok, my configuration, as promised:
1. i have hamm (i.e. Debian 2.0) installed
2. installed SVGA X server
3. Go to ftp.xfree86.org or it's mirrors
(ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/,
for example) and get precompiled SVGA server from XF3.3.3
4. gunzip, untar and copy it to /usr/X11R6/bin
5. set the right permissions and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to point to
server you just copied
6. copy enclosed file to /etc/X11/XF86Config and set your monitor and mouse
parameters
i have 2button ps/2 mouse and quite lousy 15 monitor, so if you
have better monitor, just set proper VF and HF ranges and your server
should start
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I've enclosed a copy of the same file. It should be renamed as step 6 says to.
Please let us all know if you succeed with this. By the way, I use dpkg -i
filenamegoeshere instead of dselect. (Be sure to mount /dev/hdc /cdrom or
whatever
you have to do to mount your debian distribution.)It gives me a better
feeling of
control. All I have to do then is go to /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/pretend I
really
know this by heart/stuck on Windows 98 until I buy a real modem/pitty me or
whatever.
Michael
Nuno Donato wrote:
I need some help installing Linux.
After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start
de Dselect program to install the packages. During the
installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I
select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X
configuration file. I answer 'yes' but then an error message
appear, saying that I don't have the X config file
installed, so I can't install X, so I can't run it.
Who can help me?
I have Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm
Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
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# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo
