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dhoefler

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Posted: Sep. 01 2005,13:46

I've been trying to get DSL to work on my Sony Vaio PCF-F390 laptop and I'm having no luck. Whenever I boot from the pen drive I get a screen that looks like this (click to enlarge):

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Thank you,
Dave

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Posted: Sep. 01 2005,16:32

Have you tried a framebuffering mode?

look at the F3 screen for a full list, and choose a vga=xxx code to suit your needs.

Then, when Xsetup is run, choose Xfbdev.

-J.P.

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Posted: Sep. 03 2005,03:59

I have written several docs on xsetup.sh, vga=xxx, and added to the cheatcode list.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Getting_Started

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