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I called acer and they told me its an integrated SiS Mirage videocard on an Aeus motherboard....
  1. 10-25-2006 #11
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    I called acer and they told me its an integrated SiS Mirage videocard on an Aeus motherboard.
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    Run
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    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
    and answer all the question accordingly to your setup. Your video driver is either "sis" or "vesa".
    "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."

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  3. 10-25-2006 #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by antidrugue
    Run
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    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
    and answer all the question accordingly to your setup. Your video driver is either "sis" or "vesa".
    THANKS!

    I will give it a go..i believe its a SiS even though I saw Vesa in kcontrol days before...very weird...
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    Quote Originally Posted by maddbaron
    THANKS!

    I will give it a go..i believe its a SiS even though I saw Vesa in kcontrol days before...very weird...
    I got it working! whooo...i deleted all the conf files from the past few days, cloned and copied and renamed a conf file from july i found in the x11 section and rebooted and it worked! thank you for your help!
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    Cool! Congratulations!
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    Quote Originally Posted by antidrugue
    Cool! Congratulations!
    yeah this is great...lol...question i used adept to get fluxbox, and idesk...how do i launch them to replace my current environment and file manager?
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    You should get a choice in your login manager (where you type username and password after boot) to go into fluxbox (session).
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    Quote Originally Posted by antidrugue
    You should get a choice in your login manager (where you type username and password after boot) to go into fluxbox (session).

    ahhhhhhhhhh ok thank you.
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