X and Fluxbox :: All the colors are off!
I quite like DSL (v. 0.7.2). It's a fantastic little distro, and I would love to use it more. But every time I use it, after some 20 min I give up in disgust and shut the damn small thing down, not being able to stand it any longer. Why - what's the problem? Well, Tux has got blue feet! All the colors are off! And I mean off off off! The yellows are blues, the blues are browns, the reds are purples etc. etc.
I have a Dell Dimension 2300 with Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz CPU. Video is handled by the Intel 82845G/GL chipset graphics controller which is integrated into the motherboard. Video memory is 32Mb, much of which is taken from system RAM. The Xdriver is i810 and the monitor is a Dell E772c.
This hardware works fine with the XFree86 v. 11 server used by several big Linux distros that I have installed on my machine. At 1024x768 resol., 16 bit depth, Hsync 70Hz, Vrefr. 85 Hz, all the colors are rendered correctly and everything looks nice.
With the Xvesa server used by DSL all the colors are off at any resolution and any color depth. When I choose the Xfbdev server, DSL hangs on bootup.
How can this problem be corrected? Is this a Dell BIOS problem? If so, can it be patched? If the Xvesa server does not properly support the onboard Intel graphics chipset, can I use another server that does? Is a version of DSL available that uses the XFree86 server? Or can the CD be remastered (easily - 'cause I'm a Linux newbie) to replace Xvesa with XFree86? Is there some other driver that I should use and how can I install it for DSL?
I really would like to get DSL working on my system.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Robert
Start by trying to boot with the F2 boot time option for video like this:
boot: dsl vga=normal
I have the same challenge with a old Compaq 486 I want to use. I try to boot and the screen gives me message about an undefined mode for the video settings and all the screen looks off color and fuzzy. The videa card is a Permedia 2D/3D any ideas? I have used F2 to set vga=normal.
dsl vga=normal at the boot prompt didn't help, unfortunately. Tux still has blue feet and people are still blue in the face, myself included '
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Robert
Which "Tux"?
The one that appears in the upper left corner when you are booting the CD, or the one that appears in the center when you start up X-Windows?
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