Trouble with screen on laptop.
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Trouble with screen on laptop.
started by: schopenhauer101
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Mar. 22 2004,03:14
Hi ive tried to get help some weeks ago at another place in this forum, but still not a single reply... and the rest is silence...Since im plain desperate i try to repost my worry under this part of the forum. Take a look at; < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....2;t=155 >
Any help would be just lovely.
Take care,
Björn
Posted by hawki on Mar. 22 2004,17:08
HiI can't tell from your description just how your system is configured but often this symptom is not the actual display but lack of resources. It is possible you are running out of memory or swap space. If you haven't already, try creating a swap partition on disk.
good luck
Posted by hasty on Mar. 22 2004,18:16
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.....but thats never stopped me before 
Since yours is a hard disk install, the only thing I could suggest is trying to download and install Xfree86 as it sounds as if there is an incompatibility with the limited video drivers DSL uses.
Don't recommend it unless you know what you're doing...................
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Mar. 23 2004,14:38
Thanx Hawki & Hasty, for your clues. Im sure that the laptop got enough firepower (in the hardwareish sense of the word) in order to manage DSL, -but thanx anyway! However it might quite likely have to do something with graphic-card incompability. It is equiped with the neomagic chipset that is known to be quite anoying. IS IT JUST TO INSTALL XFREE86? AND THAN NOTHING MORE? My girlfriend is travelling to Stockholm today and she got the DSL-equiped laptop with her but i will give it a shot when the laptop is back home. Hey Hasty, nice Wittgenstein quote by the way. Ill just log out with a short Zenbuddhistic koan that also deals with the subject of silence but as well about the purpose of ALL. Here we go:a silent pond.
a frog leaps.
Plop!
Take care,
Björn.
Posted by hasty on Mar. 23 2004,19:40
Sounds better in the original I would do a lot of googling first concerning Xfree86 + debian+ install etc..I have a feeling that you would have to remove the existing xserver first and all references to X11 from your drive.
While I've played with & upgraded Xfree86 in the past, I've never had to install with debian before ( used to the old make-install routine). Think it's a fairly hefty package with server and common files as separate installs.
Perhaps someone has tried this and could give you better information.
The great thing with DSL is that is small enough to play with.
Make a mistake and 5 minutes later you have it reinstalled.
First snow, then silence
schopenhauers screen dies
so beautifully
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Mar. 23 2004,22:48
!!!
Posted by Grim on Mar. 24 2004,02:19
If you have apt working do...| Code Sample |
| apt-get install x-window-system |
That meta-package will probably install more than you want (xdm), but it _will_ install all the little packages that aren't so obvious (xfonts, etc.) that will drive you crazy trying to get X working.
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Mar. 24 2004,21:01
Thanx alot for the advices!Only two days until i get my hand on the laptop.
If im successfull i will as usual post a note here about how it is done, so people with the similar problem as i can sort it out.
Take care,
Björn.