ico2
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Posted: Nov. 21 2004,13:30 |
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(Q) i have a naff old monitor and when i run dsl on it i get fuzzy, stuff that jumpts about everywhere, the text slides accross the screen for no reason, and some other nasty stuff happens. i cannot even run xsetup because things are so fuzzy.
(A) i had this prob myself, here's how to fix it.
if you are running from livecd, this is not hard to fix, simply type dsl vga=normal. this will make it work properly.
if you are running from hd, it becomes more difficult, but it is fixable.
first we need to be able to see what we are doing, so ctrl-alt-del and type xsetup.sh, this will bring up xsetup (which you cannot see properly.)
the following key presses will get most people going ok.
enter-down-enter-down-enter-enter.
you will still be able to see nothing from the command line, but if you type startx you should go back into x, you should be able to see, however, it would be usefull to be able to see stuff while booting and using the command line, so thats what we will fix next.
open up scite as super-user (in xterm type sudo scite) and open /etc/lilo.conf (or might be etc/lilo/lilo.conf, but i think it is the former. at the top you should see vga=somethingorother, replace it with vga=normal. (DO NOT STOP FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS HERE OR YOUR PC MAY NEVER BOOT AGAIN)
save, and exit scite back in xterm type lilo, it should show some stuff and then finish. now reboot and it should work.
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