[ltp] Debian XFree86 750P, anyone?

[Eben King]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Chris Schumann wrote:

> I'm trying to get my 750P working again. It's a 33MHz 486 with 20MB RAM and
> a 12GB hard drive, and I'm trying to run Debian on it. Well, Debian runs.
> XFree86 is not usable. It's visible but with 320x200 pixels, you really
> can't do much.
> 
> I have searched a lot on how to get this working, but everything I can find
> is for very old versions of XFree86.
> 
> I'd be ever so grateful if one of you gurus would take me under your wing
> and walk me through this. I think a lot of Debian experience is the key
> here. I've only used Red Hat and Fedora, but those were not good choices for
> this machine.
> 
> If you want some video details, the chip is a WD 90C24 with 1MB video RAM.
> The display is 640x480 grayscale (64 levels or 6-bit if that matters).

What happens when you set 640x480 b&w in /etc/X11/XF86Config?  Any unusual 
lines in /var/log/messages or /var/log/XFree86.0.log ?

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