Laptops :: boots fine, but lime green haze

Compaq Presario 1245
333mhz 64 ram
put in the cd and everything is normal while booting(black background , readable font)
then when its all done booting, everything goes light green and the text / icons go white and they aren';t totally defined so its almost impossible to read
i;m able to open shell or anything as long as i remember where it is.
any suggestions?
thanks

when you get to the boot prompt, you can try the various boot options. I have a different kind of laptop, but I have to use:

dsl fb1024x768

at the boot prompt, or I get the same kind of uglyness that you describe.
You can also try:

dsl xsetup

at the boot prompt, so when it's almost done and prompts you for seme setup, you can try frame buffer ( fb ) modes until you find what works.

Good luck!

Some laptops don't like 1024x768, so an alternative would be:

fb800x600

NOT

dsl fb800x600

cool ! thanks! that worked
one more thing, how do you make the screen fit the physical screen? my mouse can go off the physical screen on the bottom and on the left.

Maybe 800x600 is too large for your monitor.

try:

fb640x480

and see if that works.

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