starting X

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: starting X
started by: Red04Bull

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 16 2006,05:14

when i start X it comes up with gray x pattern thing with no icons and all the colors are off
then i change my theme to biz card or something else and every thing is very pixelated and all the collors are still very off

my monitor is a ViewSonic VA1912wb

any ideas??

thanks in advance

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Posted by darkerror on Jan. 16 2006,23:06

if u add some more of ur specs it may be easyer to find the problem

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 17 2006,00:20

it says that i passed an undefined mode number when i hit enter at dsl splash screen

it says video adapter: vesa vga

mode:   ColsxRows:
00  0F00   80x25
00  0F01   80x50

with a bunch more

Enter mode number or 'scan':

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Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 17 2006,04:16

Try pressing the F3 key at the boot screen and then try some other video modes like:

dsl vga=771 xsetup

and then choose the xfbdev server when prompted.

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 17 2006,19:48

tried that and i get

modprobe: modprobe: can't locate module fb0
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 ( connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining


then i get command line
dsl@tty1[dsl]$

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 17 2006,19:54

could the problem be my monitor is a widescreen?

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Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 18 2006,17:40

You need to choose a mode that does not give you an unsupported mode error.

If you boot with a supported framebuffer mode, the fb0 error 104 will go away.

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 23 2006,04:01

figured it out for myself

i installed XFree86 and the setup .dsl

then used the settings that i have for the monitor in FC4

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