Re: Inexper question I - Configuring monocromatic

"William M. Quarles" <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:14:00 -0400
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William

pato diaz wrote:
>   Hello how are you, i hope you are all rigth. 
> 
>   Im from Argentina And Im new on all the Linux and free soft area so I will ask you to be patient with me because my liltle knowledge about the sistem and the errors on my wrigting. I have to ask you because nobody else seem to be rigth to ask about this. 
> 
>   My computer: 
> 
>       AMDK6 233MHz,  32MB ram, 700MB HD
>   My video card:
>       Trident TGUI9680 with 1MB memory
>   My Monitor:
>     My monitor is the problem, Is a DATAS black and white, wich I have to use because my other monitor just BUM!!! (^_^) And I have not the real sync rates for it but in win can do 1024x768 , 256 colors, arround 75Hz. If you know ho to get the real sync rates with no the manual please tell me I actually use a really big option (30-90 and 40-110) 
>   My Problem:
>   I get a debian distribution (DeMunDi, with the woody release) wich have the XFree86 4, it have been installed in 50 minutes but when I want to upload the graffic interface It dont do it, after 4 weeks I realese that the problem was that I have not mouse, I add the "AllowMouseOpenFail" option to the server falgs section and It gets up (TWM) realy realy fast, then my problem: It seems to be that only two of the four cuadrants are being showed, If I push F12 the menu appears in the middle down of the screen, and there is a black beetwen them, If I do xvidconfig and push "r" they swith left to rigth and rigth to left, and is not on focus.
>   Well thats my problem and nobody has been able to answer me how to solve it, I hope you do.
>   Thanks a lot for reading and again Im so sory about the erros that you can find And I hope you teach me to not do it again.
>   Thanks again.
> GridCube, Sings.