Screen Colour issues
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Screen Colour issues
started by: HippyVanMan
Posted by HippyVanMan on Dec. 21 2006,17:28
That's a picture of my screen, sorry about the poor shot.
I've just installed dsl to my hdd, and the screen was the colour when I was using a live cd to install too. Unfortunately I can't see to read on the screen, how would I go about fixing this? I've never really used linux before and never dsl.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 21 2006,18:00
Please post your system info, esp. monitor and video specs.If this is an older laptop, you can probably boot with an fb code and choose the xf86dev on xsetup.
Posted by HippyVanMan on Dec. 21 2006,18:33
It's a dell latitude CPi pentium 2 300mhz laptop with 128mb of ram.So pretty old.
I'm afraid I do not know anything specific about the screen and cannot seem to find anything about a dell latitude CPi's screen anywhere on the web.
Is there something I could either type into the terminal and try and read to see screen information and then fix this, or this there something I can just try that might work?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 21 2006,18:39
See my last line of my previous post, and check out the wiki page on cheatcodes if you're not sure what's that about.Note that xsetup can be passed as a bootcode or executed manually as xsetup.sh
Posted by andrewb on Dec. 21 2006,22:18
see:< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx >
Posted by HippyVanMan on Dec. 24 2006,20:44
I edited menu.lst to include the vga={784} for 15-bit 640x480 screen. But yet the problem still persists. Any other was of fixing this?WHen it boots it says something about an illegal request and xsetup.sh (or a similar word), hope that helps.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 31 2006,23:34
Did you boot withdsl vga=784
then?