[newbie] Screen Flickers

2000-12-12 Thread Robert Pena
Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor.   HP Pavilion 500MHz AMD K6-II 280 Ram ATI All In Wonder 128 32MHz 10 G Harddrive  I carefully went through X setup during installation picking my monitor and video card. I tried different configuration on color and depth settings but upon testing I get an error message and a list drops down pointing to my keyboard, mouse, monitor,video card, and other I am not familiar with.Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com


Re: [newbie] Screen Flickers

2000-12-12 Thread Paul

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Robert Pena wrote:

Just installed Linux for Windows carefully reading all info and checking
update on hardware compatibilies. After rebooting the screen has
vertical flickering lines with multiple penguins and mouse cursor.

Looks like you did something wrong with the vertical refresh rate of the
video card or the monitor...
Try setting things to 640x480 and 256 colors. If that works, gradually
work your way up.

This usually works for the non-lin4win setup, it should, afaik, also work
for the one you use. Disclaimer: I never used lin4win, and don't intend to
become even a newbie on it. ;)

Paul

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