X and Fluxbox :: More X Problems



HI SpEcIeS,

look at the thread x window problem, í own a thinkpad 760
and also didn´t succeed to  get x server properly running :-(

Finally switched back to win98se.....

Greetz Doc.
I went back to windows also. :(  




SpEcIeS
The Thinkpad 760 would probably work okay at 800x600, 'fb800x600' at boot.

SpEcIeS, you can do a lot in Linux in text mode, for instance Links is a very good text browser, and you still have your choice of three editors, you could add mutt for email, MC for file browsing, etc.
Ok, your original error was because you were trying to make a framebuffer server on a machine without a fb0 device. I'm not sure about how to make this device with having LILO do it, but here's the fix, made by yours truly.

Once you get the fb0 error, you should be at a standard console. goto to etc (cd etc) and edit lilo.conf (nano lilo.conf). At the top or somewhere near the middle you should see the line 'vga=#' where # could be any number. DSL Initally set this number to a default value that works on most computers, and a few laptops. What you need to do is change this number to one of the below, which ever you prefer.


Colours   640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------
4 bits  |    ?       ?     0x302      ?        ?        ?         ?
8 bits  |  0x300   0x301   0x303    0x305    0x161    0x307     0x31C
15 bits |    ?     0x310   0x313    0x316    0x162    0x319     0x31D
16 bits |    ?     0x311   0x314    0x317    0x163    0x31A     0x31E
24 bits |    ?     0x312   0x315    0x318      ?      0x31B     0x31F
32 bits |    ?       ?       ?        ?      0x164      ?

4 bits = 16 colours
8 bits = 256 colours
15 bits = 32,768 colours
16 bits = 65,536 colours
24 bits = 16.8 million colours
32 bits - 16.8 million colours
0x300 = 768 0x301 = 769 0x302 = 770
0x303 = 771 0x305 = 773 0x307 = 775
0x310 = 784 0x311 = 785 0x312 = 786
0x313 = 787 0x314 = 788 0x315 = 789
0x316 = 790 0x317 = 791 0x318 = 792
0x319 = 793 0x31A = 794 0x31B = 795
0x31C = 796 0x31D = 797 0x31E = 798
0x31F = 799 0x161 = 353 0x162 = 354
0x163 = 355 0x164 = 356
Once you have the lilo.conf modded, you need to save and at the console type: lilo. This allows LILO to check out the config file before a restart, if ou don't do this it's likely that you won't be able to start back up. Now, restart OR if you had an Xvesa server on run xsetup.sh and change it to  Xfbdev. This has worked for me on my laptop, G/L.
Crotalus, can you modify your post so that it would be a general howto and then post it in the "howto" forum?  Then it will be easy to find and we could reference it as needed.
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