Subject: Re: YDL is up and running
From: Eric Reischer (emr@engr.de.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 20:19:36 MST
Somewhere in your XF86Config file, I think under the Display Adapter
settings, you want to put "DefaultColorDepth 32" (or 24 or 16, or 8,
depending on what your video card supports). This sets the default color
setings to be either 32bit, 24bit, 16bit, or 256 color mode,
respectively. You can also set this from within the xserver-config setup,
but that's only when you're using the VGA server. I'm assuming you're
using the SVGA or better accelerated server, so you probably won't get that
option, you'll have to enter it in manually.
At 10:09 PM 10/29/00 , you wrote:
>I recalibrated my monitor. The only thing that was wrong was the deminsion
>settings were thrown way off key. That fixed the fuzzy video.
>
>I reinstalled YDL and this time, it took. Start up was smooth, and this time
>it just seemed to take hold and work.
>
>There is no sound, and even though I typed DMA sound, it refuses to make
>noise. However, my screen is at a more comfortable 1024x768, but, it is
>still at 8 bit grainy colour. There must be a way to fix this.
>
>It recognized my hardware modem for 56k dial out, but, I would rather have
>DSL service. Calling Bellsouth, I found out that the special modem that I
>recieved for my Mac would not work with the Linux OS. They stated that the
>Alcatel Modem for Windows would work, but, I would need an Intel based
>system to use it. Some how, this does not sound right. I am using an Alcatel
>speed touch home connected directly to the ethernet port, and I use a
>software called Enternet to access the DSL. I was told the only way that I
>might be able to get this DSL line working in Linux on the Mac would be to
>purchase a router with it's own hardware address and then hook that to the
>ethernet port, and then hook the modem to the router. For some faint reason
>I think I am being handed a line of bull. I contacted Enternet from their
>website, and I am still waiting for their reply. Bellsouth Tech support told
>me that the drivers for Enternet 300 do not work on PPC based Linux systems.
>(Which may be true... I got them loaded into the system from the CDROM, but,
>every time I try and click them or use them, I get errors.) Has anybody
>found a way around this? if I can not access my high speed line, then Linux
>is a dead end for me, and will unfourtunately be cast aside for something
>that works.
>
>So far though, except for the sound, this install seems to be much better
>than the last working install that totally trashed my system. If there was a
>way to fix the sound, the colour, and get my high speed 'net working, I
>think I could tranfer over to Linux as my main OS. Until these problems get
>fixed however, Linux is nothing more than a novelty that is interesting to
>look at, but, unable to do anything usefull.
>
><dr_s_douglass@mac.com>
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Eric Reischer "You can't depend on your eyes
emr@engr.de.psu.edu if your imagination is out
of focus."
emr@ccil.org -- Mark Twain
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