RobF
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Posted: July 17 2004,06:05 |
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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
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