Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-18 00:43:52 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section Device Identifier NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] Driver nv EndSection Thanks, selecting the nv driver instead of vesa solves the problem. I wonder why Debian doesn't do it by default

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: Hello everyone, I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could this

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: Hello everyone, I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could this

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi everyone, I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple of different drivers and color depths and nothing. Searching the web I found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/10/msg00191.html. But I haven't found anything else, so I don't know the full context of that posting. I

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:40 pm, Alejandro Salas wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple of different drivers and color depths and nothing. Searching the web I found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/10/msg00191.html. But I haven't found

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 07:40 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple of different drivers and color depths and nothing. Typically, this would mean that the capabilities of your monitor and videocard are inadequately stated in

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-16 17:16:14 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I had it at 1280

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed that after Sarge is installed, the maximum configured resolution is 800x600 (anyone knows why?), and one needs a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 for higher resolutions. I recently installed Sarge (a few times, actually) and I also experienced the 800x600 problem. I did not have

Re [First Solved]: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi everyone, For some extrange reason, the manual were I got the monitor specs were not entirely correct. I had specific values (not ranges). After looking up in the internet I found the right values and voila!!. Thanx everyone for their input. I still have to deal with the login screen, but I'm

Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hello everyone, I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could this be some kind of driver issue??. Any ideas?. My other problem is that

Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Salas
I forgot to say that I have an integrated Savage 8 2D/3D graphic controller (MS-6738 motherboard). And my current driver in XF86Config-4 is savage. Should I use a different one?... Thanx. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-16 06:37:29 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could this be some kind of driver

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-16 Thread eCLesiAst
Maybe Try with S3 Driver for more info go to console and type lspci, and look your video card model for more security. On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 07:20 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: I forgot to say that I have an integrated Savage 8 2D/3D graphic controller (MS-6738 motherboard). And my current

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi, I had already tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 with no results. Once, the only resolution I checked was 1280x1024 and I had a nasty result, ending up with a resolution below 800x600. I just tried changing the driver to S3, but I couldn't even start X. That was in kind of a hurry, so I'm