[pure:dyne] hi, hope it is a nice distro - can't start it yet though

[am]

crap ...
then it's my fault I was convinced most of recent gphx card were
correctly handling 24 bits ... I'm puzzled ...

ah well, next ISO we put back 16bits mode by default ...

sorry guys!


Rob Canning said :
> 
> hi,
> 
> anton helped me fix problems i was having with my laptop graphics card and X starting.
> 
> here is what worked for my garbled graphics...
> 
> first dock your puredyne
> 
> then once you have booted up - kill X so you have a command prompt
> 
> then login as root password luther
> 
> then edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf changing the line defaultdisplay=24
> to defaultdisplay=16
> 
> then restart X by typing startx
> 
> do not reboot or you changes to xorg.conf will be wiped.
> 
> now nest
> 
> this should ensure your changes to xorg.conf are kept
> 
> now try rebooting
> 
> this worked for me anyway
> 
> cheers,
> rob_c
> 
> 
> "p:d" <puredyne at goto10.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > The image boots, all great until X gets involved, then the image gets
> > 
> > > close the trifonar of professor calculus (tintin) :-)
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Did
> > you try the various boot options? there must be some video setting to get
> > your X running.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Do you happen to have a dynebolic nest or dock on your
> > hard drive?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > VirtualFlavius
> > 
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> > 
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