Re: Improvement.

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:34:10PM -0700, R Vijay wrote:
> My sincere thanks to Heather Stern for suggesting the
> Linux Gazette. They were very helpful in solving the
> problem I faced with regards to the IRQ conflict.
> Basically, I had to transfer my HD to the Secondary
> IDE connector, have it as the master and the CD as the
> slave.

Goodie.  Glad it helped. 

> However, there is still another issue. lnx-bbc doesn't
> load in graphics format for me. So, I am unable to use
> startx. What could be the reason for this ? Please
> help.
> 
> Vijay

What complaint does it give, or what happens, when you try one of the
framebuffer modes (my favorite is 3, the 800x600 mode, as looking
good on a lot of systems I've used lnx-bbc for... but try 640x480,
too).

Do you get a blue LNX-BBC piece of art in blue?  If you do, after that
do you see text from our startup, or inky blackness, or a wash out to
white?

Not getting the LNXBBC art would imply framebuffer can't work for you.
I believe that the framebuffer modes in the Linux kernel only support
VESA 2.0, not VESA 1.2, and that this is kind of rare, but does get
run into. If that's what your finding, a newer video card, even from the
bargain bin, is probably the real right answer.

Getting the LNXBBC art but nothing else would imply some sort of modal
problem, and I'd pick one of our other numbered modes.  The good news is
that there's hope for it.

Getting washout white implies that the taken up mode exceeds the
boundaries of your monitor ability and you should get a better monitor
before continuing, or choose a weaker mode. 

If your monitor shows nothing and starts to squeal (even very quietly) 
turn it off PRONTO!  It's unhappy and you don't want it to consider 
leaking magic smoke.  It's been literally longer than the lnx-bbc has 
been around since I've seen that symptom - but I'm being a completist.

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