Re: [Sheflug] XF86Setup Help

["Darrell Blake" <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

Voodoo 3 3000
When it tries to connect to the X Server the graphics screw up, it goes
black and there's funny colours at the tope of the screen.
It doesn't throw any errors but it doesn't seem to work.

Daz
----- Original Message -----
From: Barrie Bremner <baz [at] barriebremner.com>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 12:13 AM
Subject: [Sheflug] XF86Setup Help


> >>>>> "Darrell" == Darrell Blake <dazblake [at] Btinternet.com> writes:
>
>     Darrell> Hey, I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm running
>     Darrell> Slackware 7.1 and have recently changed my motherboard,
>     Darrell> processor and hard drive. Ever since then when I install
>     Darrell> it and type XF86Setup (I select that I don't want to use
>     Darrell> the current config) the screen goes funny. I'm wondering
>     Darrell> if there are any arguments I can pass to it to tell it to
>     Darrell> run in a certain graphics mode so that it doesn't screw
>     Darrell> up. I've also tried using xf86config but that doesn't
>     Darrell> seem to work. Please help.
>
> What sort of graphics card(s) are you using?
>
> What do you mean by "funny"?
>
> What errors is XF86Config etc throwing?
>
> I hate X. Well, config'ing it anyway :-)
>
> Baz.
>
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