Need help on help.

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Need help on help.
started by: dogidog

Posted by dogidog on Dec. 15 2006,06:21

I just have pleasant experience installing DSL on my computers. And I couldn't believe that 50Meg package can deliver so much punch. Everything worked great except I've missed two things:

I could get only 800x600 res. on my desktop computer with Intel's 82815 graph. chipset. The earlier Ubuntu with xorg had the same problem, but a new version works very well. Also, VESA driver for Panasonic CF-25 has the some problem (Chips&Tech chipset). However, there is a pleasant surprise, on Fujitsu LifeBook, it selects 1280X1024 res. (Win. uses 1024x768 with worse result). Here is the question; is there an other X11 driver than VESA that I can use with DSL?
I understand that we have very limited space on DSL image, but if I really wont to; can I install man documentation? Actually the “man” instruction exists, but when I type “man something” it crashes the shell & I have to kill the terminal.

I would appreciate your help.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 15 2006,15:28

You could try to increase your video memory (this looks like an integrated chipset) in your BIOS.

By VESA are you using the full XF86 server with `Driver "vesa" ' or the TinyX Xvesa server? If it's the full XF86 server, you can install the intel display drivers instead.

About man: you need an internet connection to access the pages (though I though it justs hangs there - not a crash? o.o). If you want some offline docs, it is available in mydsl (youll have to download and transfer it over somehow though).

Posted by dogidog on Dec. 22 2006,21:14

I appreciate your help, but I still cannot get my X driver right. I have selected VESA driver during installation, but I coud't find XG86Config so I cannot say which driver I'm using. I think, I've tried all combinations of DSL X Setup and it continuously defaults into the same erroneous video driver. First the ATerm barely worked so I've tried Alt+Cont+F1 – that didn't work. I returned to ATerm & tried to run XF86Setup & xt86config, no success. While I was looking for XF86Config (no such file on my computer) I found Xsetup program. When I've tried to run it, that shows the error:”insmod: ... apm.0 failed”. What should I do to change the video driver short of playing with kernel modules? BTW my knowledge of Linux is not very extensive & I would appreciate to point me to resources where I can find the answers on my installation problems. And the last comment; using DSL on my other computer I think it is a best distro I've ever tried (if it works). I would appreciate v. much if someone help me to make it work on my other computer.