Hi David, Doug, and folks, Thanks for your advice.
Problem solved #cat /etc/X11/XF86config-4 ..... Monitor "AcerView 34T" VideoRam "32768" driver "nv" ..... xserver now starts running on 1024x768/800x600 resolution with colour depth=24(32)bits. KDE-3.1.1 is now displayed. The only mistakes I made previously was entering "AcerView 34T uvga" and "VideoRam 32". Debian did not recognize it. Monitor entry must be "AcerView 34T" GNOME still could not start. Anyway I will make another clean net-installation again after solving the problem re 'cut-off' from Internet (ISP connected). Thereafter I will download the driver from ftp to download.nvidia.com Thanks again and Merry X'Mas B.R. Stephen On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 01:16, David Z Maze wrote: > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just finished another clean installation of Debian 3.0 with > > net-installer (Sarge) and encountered starting xserver problem > > > > Vedio card - WinFast GeForce2 MX > > RAM - 32MB > > driver chosen - nv > ... > > (--) Chipset GeForce2 MX/MX 400 found > > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (insufficient memory for > > mode) > > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for > > mode) > > (WW) NV(0): Mode pool is empty > > (EE) NV(0): No valid modes found > > What I take from this: you're using the right driver for your card > ("GeForce2 MX" does sound like an NVidia card, and 'nv' would be the > right driver), and the X server finds your card, but doesn't realize > there's memory available. (1024x768x32bpp would require exactly 3 MB > of memory, which you should easily be able to handle.) If you look in > /var/log/XFree86.0.log, does it list the amount of memory that's being > detected? If it's detecting wrong, you might need to add 'VideoRam > 32768' in the "Device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; you also > might be able to specify video memory manually in 'dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86'. (And if it asked you "how much memory" and you > answered "32", that would cause this, though that's just speculation.) > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]