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I just have pleasant experience installing DSL on my computers. And I couldn't believe that 50Meg package can deliver so much punch. Everything worked great except I've missed two things:
I could get only 800x600 res. on my desktop computer with Intel's 82815 graph. chipset. The earlier Ubuntu with xorg had the same problem, but a new version works very well. Also, VESA driver for Panasonic CF-25 has the some problem (Chips&Tech chipset). However, there is a pleasant surprise, on Fujitsu LifeBook, it selects 1280X1024 res. (Win. uses 1024x768 with worse result). Here is the question; is there an other X11 driver than VESA that I can use with DSL?
I understand that we have very limited space on DSL image, but if I really wont to; can I install man documentation? Actually the “man” instruction exists, but when I type “man something” it crashes the shell & I have to kill the terminal.
I would appreciate your help.
You could try to increase your video memory (this looks like an integrated chipset) in your BIOS.
By VESA are you using the full XF86 server with `Driver "vesa" ' or the TinyX Xvesa server? If it's the full XF86 server, you can install the intel display drivers instead.
About man: you need an internet connection to access the pages (though I though it justs hangs there - not a crash? o.o). If you want some offline docs, it is available in mydsl (youll have to download and transfer it over somehow though).
I appreciate your help, but I still cannot get my X driver right. I have selected VESA driver during installation, but I coud't find XG86Config so I cannot say which driver I'm using. I think, I've tried all combinations of DSL X Setup and it continuously defaults into the same erroneous video driver. First the ATerm barely worked so I've tried Alt+Cont+F1 – that didn't work. I returned to ATerm & tried to run XF86Setup & xt86config, no success. While I was looking for XF86Config (no such file on my computer) I found Xsetup program. When I've tried to run it, that shows the error:”insmod: ... apm.0 failed”. What should I do to change the video driver short of playing with kernel modules? BTW my knowledge of Linux is not very extensive & I would appreciate to point me to resources where I can find the answers on my installation problems. And the last comment; using DSL on my other computer I think it is a best distro I've ever tried (if it works). I would appreciate v. much if someone help me to make it work on my other computer.
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