/dev/lp1 and printing sorted out! Now trouble is that I cannot get my combination of a number 9 FX Motion 771 card (it's an approved S3 card, fairly sure it has 4Mb RAM) to run X in 1024X768. I know it will do this as it ran NT at that resolution. I think I successfully (but not usably) ran it on 1280x1024 which is the maximum my monitor can do. Now all I'm getting is 800x600 and that's virtual as the autosynch monitor is resolutely sticking in 640*400 at 70MHz.
Monitor is an Elonex rebadged Phillips Brilliance 17" I think. The pertinent modes it offers according to the manual are: M08 = 8514A 1024x768 H:35.5MHz V 87 M09 1024x768 H:48.4 V 60 M10 1024x768 H:56.0 V 70 I used XF86config to set up the configuration and have tried adapting it by hand with no joy at all. Then entry I have in /etc/X11/XF86Config for the card contains: VideoRam 4096 s3RefClk 16 DACspeed 220 startx is reporting clocks of 24.93 28.32 0.00 and 0.00 which doesn't look very high, it's rejecting a number of modes as needing hsync frequencies that are not what it wants. I think the problem is that this indicates a programmable clock and it could be instructed to clock higher than this. The documentation on the card specifically says you shouldn't probe it so I can't take that line of action. Can someone tell me clock settings that I should be giving to /ect/X11/XF86Config? Ugh, Debian can have a pretty long learning curve can't it? TIA, Chris Chris Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, Locum Consultant to the Prudence Skynner Family Therapy Clinic, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://psyctc.sghms.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null