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Topic: X problems on NEC Ready 120LT

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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,22:25

I'm trying to run DSL 3.2 on an old NEC Ready 120LT with a 200Mhz Cyrix processor, and 128MB of RAM. The video chipset is a NeoMagic MagicGraph 2097 128ZV with 1MB of video RAM.

I've only gotten X to work when I boot off the CD and specify "dsl vga=786" Any other option leads me to a garbled desktop, or X crashes.
If I use xvesa, then I'll end up with a garbled unreadable desktop, and when I kill X by pressing CTRL+ALT+BKSP the terminal is also garbled.
If i use xfbdev it crashes with the error

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XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on xserver ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

BTW, I'm a complete n00b, so thanks for any help.

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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,22:30

Did you try booting with "fb800x600"?

Theres also the XFree86.* extensions in which you could use the neomagic driver with.

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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,22:37

see:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx

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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,23:28

The fb800x600 option from the grub menu works, but the screen doesn't seem to actually support 800x600, so it's cutting off the right and bottom parts of the screen.

Not sure how to use the information from the other link though, sorry. =(

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Okay, I finally figured it out how to use that link... I ended up editing the grub menu to specify vga=786, and that worked, so w00t.

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