Which X xerver driver

seashell11 · 07-29-2005, 02:11 PM

I am installing Debian on my computer. A window came up that says:

Configuring xserver-xfree86

For the X Window System graphical user interface to operate correctly, it is necessaery to select a video card driver for the X server.

Drivers are typically named for the video card or chipset manufacturer, or for a specific model or family of chipsets.

Select the desired X server driver. Following are the options it gave me:

apm

ark

ati

chips

cirrus

cyprix

fbdev

glide

glint

i128

i1740

i810

imstt

mga

neomagic

newport

nsc

nv

rendition

s3

s3virge

savage

siliconmotion

sis

tdfx

tga

trident

tseng

vesa

vga

via

vmware

Ok

My video card is a Chaintech XGI Volari V3 and here is a link to it Video Card on Tiger Direct.

samael26 · 07-29-2005, 02:54 PM

Hi,
I am perhaps mistaken, but it reads vga on the doc for your card. You could try it.
If it does not work, vesa is the middle-of-the-road choice.

Hope it helps
cheers

seashell11 · 07-29-2005, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by samael26
Hi,
I am perhaps mistaken, but it reads vga on the doc for your card. You could try it.
If it does not work, vesa is the middle-of-the-road choice.

Hope it helps
cheers

Thands a lot! I'm still trying to figure this thing out. I just found a lot of documentation on it, so next time I hope I won't have such a stupid question.

bruno buys · 07-29-2005, 03:10 PM

The graphic chipset brand would be more important than the card brand, in this case. If its nvidia, use nv, if its ati, use ati, and so forth.

ToastedToad · 07-29-2005, 03:37 PM

http://www.xgitech.com/sd/sd_download2.asp

Found the driver for i386, but not sure which basic linux driver you will need for the initial install.

bruno buys · 07-29-2005, 04:07 PM

the basic seems to be vesa.

seashell11 · 07-29-2005, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bruno buys
the basic seems to be vesa.

Thanks! But I already installed it with VGA and it works besides it only has a 640x480 resolution (I think its a setting I did wrong when I set it up) is there anything I can do to fix this? Or should I change it to VESA? If so how do I change that?

bruno buys · 07-29-2005, 04:43 PM

If it works with vesa, and its a temporary situation, I would not change that. Anyway, to reconfigure it, as root do:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86