Dell Optiplex GXa problems

[Alan DuBoff]

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On Monday 12 November 2001 11:19 am, Methochias wrote:

> after choosing card# 68 for Mach64 3D Rage Pro, testing the configuration
> results in:
>
> X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_VGA16 failed
> when I use conservative settings

> Any ideas?

Well, you give such little information, I'm not sure I can read too much of 
your mind, but I'm going to assume that you're using XFree86 3.3.x as if 
you're installing I think you might be using a CD of potato (no CDs for woody 
I don't think;-).

You can try and do a dist upgrade to woody, and remove any of the XFree86 
3.3.x packages, and install XFree86 4.x from it, and you might have better 
luck with your video adapter. The configuration is much easier/better, IMO.

If you do this, get rid of all the packages you have and only select the 
version 4.x stuff (xserver-common, xserver-xfree86, xfree86-common, 
xbase-clients, xdm, xfs, xfonts-xxxx, etc...).

Then creating a config is typically easier (when it works;-), but just 
executing:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg -configure (as root)

should put a configuration file in your home directory.

AFAIK, your problem is not even related to XFree86 3.3.x, but I have no clue 
with the info you gave other than it doesn't work.:-/

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.
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