I am currently running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 and I have a Chaintech XGI Volari 3 (
HERE is a link to it at TigerDirect ) video card.
When I installed Debian I used the medium setting with the VGA driver when setting my monitor on XFree. I set my monitor's best resolution at 1280X1024, because that is what I wanted it to run at, but when the computer came on, it was at a 640x480 resolution with 4 bit color. Is there any way to fix this?
I tried going to
XGITECH and downloading the Z7-Linux-xf86-4.4.0 1.2.9 for i386. This was an RPM file so I did the folowing:
Code:
shelwyn:/home/eastern# alien --to-deb /home/eastern/xgi_xf86_4.4.0-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm
xgi-xf86-4.4.0_1.2.9-2_i386.deb generated
shelwyn:/home/eastern# dpkg -i //home/eastern/xgi-xf86-4.4.0_1.2.9-2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xgi-xf86-4.4.0.
(Reading database ... 122964 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xgi-xf86-4.4.0 (from .../xgi-xf86-4.4.0_1.2.9-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up xgi-xf86-4.4.0 (1.2.9-2) ...
shelwyn:/home/eastern#
Then I restarted the computer, and nothing was changed. Is the driver even installed or running?
Then I went to
Code:
shelwyn:/home/eastern# nano /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
And it showed:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 4
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
I tried changing the depth to default depth to 24 and the resolution to 1280x1024 and I tried changin depth 4 to 1280x1024 resolution. In both cases it failed to load xserver on reboot. (I don't remember the reason's it gave)
I also tried
Code:
shelwyn:/home/eastern# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-XFree86
in advanced mode and set it so it would only run with 1280x1024 resolution with 24 bit color. On reboot it told me that driver was incapable of 24 depth, or something like that.