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HippyVanMan Offline

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Posted: 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.

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Posted: 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.

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Posted: 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?

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Posted: 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