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| @(none) |
 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:29 pm |
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Installed Debian over the net this weekend. In the setup process it
asked for my graphics card. I have a Matrox G450, but that wasn't one
of the less than two dozen choices. Picked one at random, and of
course "startx" pukes. What should I use for my graphics card choice,
and how do I get back to that part of the setup routine?
Brian |
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| Gary Dale |
| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:07 am |
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none wrote:
Quote: Installed Debian over the net this weekend. In the setup process it
asked for my graphics card. I have a Matrox G450, but that wasn't one
of the less than two dozen choices. Picked one at random, and of
course "startx" pukes. What should I use for my graphics card choice,
and how do I get back to that part of the setup routine?
Brian
If in doubt, choose VESA. This is usually a slower driver but it works
with most cards.
To reconfigure your X setup, try:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
You can use this for almost all package configuration, just replace the
name of the package to reconfigure.
I can also suggest that you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add a source
for testing files (take one of your sources and replace 'stable" with
"testing"). Run "apt-get update" to get a list of the "testing"
packages, then update your X version to the latest one in testing. 4.2
is better than 4.1 in a number of respects. Just make sure to put things
back in sources.list afterwards. Be selective about what you grab from
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| Tommy |
| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:03 pm |
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Gary Dale wrote:
Quote: none wrote:
Installed Debian over the net this weekend. In the setup process it
asked for my graphics card. I have a Matrox G450, but that wasn't one
of the less than two dozen choices. Picked one at random, and of
course "startx" pukes. What should I use for my graphics card choice,
and how do I get back to that part of the setup routine?
Brian
If in doubt, choose VESA. This is usually a slower driver but it works
with most cards.
To reconfigure your X setup, try:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
You can use this for almost all package configuration, just replace the
name of the package to reconfigure.
I can also suggest that you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add a source
for testing files (take one of your sources and replace 'stable" with
"testing"). Run "apt-get update" to get a list of the "testing"
packages, then update your X version to the latest one in testing. 4.2
is better than 4.1 in a number of respects. Just make sure to put things
back in sources.list afterwards. Be selective about what you grab from
testing!
Well
Seeing as I also have the brilliant G450 - i might be able to help you -
what are you running besides debian? testing/unstable?
And what are you aiming at doing with the matrox do you want the
dualhead working in which case it takes a bit of fiddling about,
something I will be happy to help you with - but what you need to do is
install the mga driver and then modify your XF86Config-4 so X uses the
mga driver instead of vesa or whatever you have there now.
If you want dualhead running just reply here and ill talk you through it =)
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