Changing Display Driver In Debian

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How can i change my display driver in debian. I cant see any thing on the screen. Ive got the GNOME gui. I can log on by making out the logon screen. But i cant do anything else because i cant see much. Any Ideas

Jack

 

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okay looks like you chose debian as your distro! Right.. sarge 3.1? So you just see the blank screen for log in right?

 

Not exactly i cant see anything. There are lots of diagonal lines down the screen. I cant see much thought

 

ok stupid question... did you choose your correct driver during setup?

btw i asume it detected your HDD?

 

Different Computer Zimbo and im not sure if i chose my correct driver durin setup

 

ok is this a virtual machine you running debian on or a real box? what type of graphics card you got?

 

Sounds like your resolution is set to high for the card to work properly.

What you need to to is to edit a file called xorg.conf ( in the /etc/X11 folder). You need to change the default colour depth from 24 to 16.



EDIT: Pressing ESC whilst booting should take you into a terminal session where you can access and edit the file.

 

Its a real box. The only thing about the video driver i could find is something to do with artx. The pc is called a PCCHIPS m583lmr

 

Simon,When abouts at boot do i press ESC

 

Whilst its booting.

 

It doesnt do anything pressing ESC while booting on mine?

 

Oh dear. This is an antique socket 7 board with weird Ali chipset/graphics etc. You may have *big* problems getting any drivers for it.

Run it in text mode - if it *has* to have this on it.

Harry.

 

With the computer on (not booting) press and hold Ctrl + Alt + F1. That should get you into a console session. To get back to X Windows (the GUI)...assuming you have it up and running, press Ctrl + Alt + F7.

 

Your right there harry!

 

Right ive got the console up now