Hey friends, I just installed my first PC with AntiX 13.2 x86, as it looked like the best lightweight distro for ancient hardware. Anyways, the PC is a Dell Optiplex GX1 with Pentium III 700MHz cpu, 256MB PC100 ram, 20GB ata33 hard drive, and the video card upgrade being an ATI Rage 128 pci. When I first booted the PC from the CD, my 17' Gateway EV700 CRT displayed"Out of frequency". So I tried booting the PC again but pressed F5 to change the video mode."Vesa" was the only one that worked. Now I could boot to the"run from ram" desktop. I clicked on the install icon and installed AntiX exactly how the demo video said to. It appeared to install fine, excepting a minor bug where it said it could not format the partition but it worked when I tried the partition page again. Now when I had to reboot after removing the CD, the PC would boot in the normal"default setting" video mode and not the"Vesa mode". There also was no longer an F5 option to change it anymore. How can I make this AntiX PC always boot in Vesa? Do I also have to hunt down video drivers?

By the way I test booted awhile ago on a Pentium II 450MHz PC with an AGP Sis 6326 video card and it booted fine on default video mode, but the display on the AntiX desktop was very grainy and scratchy. The Sis card worked great when used in Windows 98 though.

Thanks for any help offered

George

try this boot parameter
just type it on the end of the boot line, after"quiet"

If that does not work, (I don't think it will for an installed antiX), try what is in this thread.

post38676.html?hilit=xorg.conf#p38676

These commands should do it:

CMDLINE=xdrvr=vesa /usr/sbin/buildxconfig
cat xorg.conf
sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11

The"cat" command is there for you to look at the file before you copy it to the /etc/X11/ directory.

On my system it generated the following file:

BitJam wrote:These commands should do it:

CMDLINE=xdrvr=vesa /usr/sbin/buildxconfig
cat xorg.conf
sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11

The"cat" command is there for you to look at the file before you copy it to the /etc/X11/ directory.

On my system it generated the following file:

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Section"Monitor"
    Identifier"Monitor0"
    Option"DPMS""true"
    HorizSync    30-75
    VertRefresh  55-70 
EndSection

Section"Device"
    Identifier"Device0"
    Driver    "vesa"
EndSection

Section"Screen"
    Identifier"Screen0"
    Monitor"Monitor0"
    Device "Device0"

    SubSection"Display"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Do I also type those sets of commands after"quiet" on the boot page? (I'm a noob)

No. Open up a terminal window and type the commands there. Generally"commands" means to type it into a terminal window while"boot parameter" or"cheat code' means type it into the bootloader. Sometimes you can type it into the bootloader directly and other times you need to first type"e" in order to edit the boot parameters. This depends on which bootloader is being used.

I usually use copy-and-paste to use commands that have been posted. This is easier and less error prone than typing them in. In X-windows (which is used by Linux) you can just highlight text with click and drag and then middle-click elsewhere to copy it. This is brilliant IMO and very easy. I make sure my mouse has a good and reliable middle-click because I use it constantly.