feledar
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Posted: Nov. 25 2004,19:22 |
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Hello Gang!
I received, a while back, a CD of DSL v. 0.7 from a friend. My computer is a Dell Dimension XPS P90 with a 90 MHz Pentium processor and 128 MB of RAM. The video card is an Imagine i128. I have a 14k hardware modem and a 56k Motorola Voicsurfr modem. The CD drive is not bootable and so I use a boot floppy.
I have tried, many times, to have DSL run properly on my computer. It does boot, however, the display is poor. If I choose a resolution of 1024x*x*, a grey stipple pattern appears on the background. Changing style adds colours, but often text is unreadable. No icons appear on the desktop, nor even the disk with the penguin in the centre. I am able to get some applications to run, such as Ted and XTetris.
When I boot setting the lowest resolution, the display is coloured, Dillo with an introduction to DSL appears, the central penguin disk is displayed, but there is a colour problem (the splotchy type that appears when two programmes running colours conflict with each other). XTetris does not run.
Changing colour depth seems to make no difference.
I removed the Voicesurfr modem, just in case a conflict with the sound card were, somehow, the problem. The result was the same.
These are the error messages that appear when shutting down after booting with the 1024x*x* resolution:
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insmod:\lib\modules\2.4.22.xfs\kernel\arch\i386\kernel\apm.o: init-module: No such device
insmod:\lib\modules\2.4.22.xfs\kernel\arch\i386\kernel\apm.o: char-major-10-134 failed Failed to load groupfile
BScreen::BScreen:manager screen0 using visual 0x21, depth 4
ImageControl::BImageControl: invalid colormapsize 125(5\5\5) - reducing
Gdk-WARNING**: visual typ-static color depth=4, image bpp=4, lsbfirst is not supported by GdkRGB
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With the lowest resolution, there is a series of error messages about failed colour display, upon shut down, that I will not reproduce.
On my friend's machine (which happens to be a higher Pentium with more RAM) boot up with the floppy works fine and DSL seems to run with no problems.
In its current state, I cannot use DSL. Could it be my video card? By any chance, has the newest version solved this problem? On the other hand, is the problem with Knoppix or even Debian, meaning that all distributions based on these, such as Feather Linux, will not work on my machine?
Thank you for any help.
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