I have an old IBM Thinkpad 560 that i have been running slack9.1 on and decided to give DSL a try. but when i try to do X (vesa 800x600 8bit) it comes up with all these wierd colored streaks across my screen. in fact, the only resolution at which i can get into X is 640x480 at 4 bits. any suggestions?Have you tried framebuffer mode? At the boot prompt type:
boot fb800x600
Note this is no dsl on the boot line then be sure to select framebuffer when the X configuration screen comes up.i dont see a boot line where i can select that from???
i edited lilo.conf to vga=259 (i believe this is 800x600x8 bit) and selected framebuffer from xsetup.sh. when i rebooted, it said
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X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
is there anything i can do?You already have DSL installed on the hard drive? Better to boot from CD and get X working then install to hard drive. When boot from CD you can try various options. At boot prompt press F2 to see options, such as dsl vga=normal or fb800x600 etc. Once you have X working from CD then the dsl-hdinstall will pass the correct parameters for a hard drive install.ah ok, i will see how that worksNext Page...
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