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Purpose: Finally here is a step-by-step guide to get the Intel Poulsbo (PSB) GMA 500 graphics driver working under Debian testing/unstable. Over the last 3 months or so since I wrote an introductory post regarding this whole issue, I have got several emails and comments with a request to put up such a guide. Sorry [...]

Here is a quick tip to disable your login manager like GDM, KDM or XDM from starting up automatically upon system boot. Many times you need to boot your Linux system just to a console based mode and ideally you would like to start the X server (Graphics/Login manager) only when you need it.
Disable login/graphics [...]

If you recently upgrade to Debian Squeeze from Debian Lenny and you notice that the X server crashes and you get following similar error messages in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
Could not allocate video memory
No screens found

then follow the steps below to resolve the error.
Step 1: Shutdown your X
Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1. This will give you your tty1 console
# /etc/init.d/gdm,{kdm},{xdm} [...]

Purpose: In this entry we will see how can we enable 3D acceleration for your graphics card/chipset in Debian Lenny (5.0). Sometime back I had written a similar post explaining how to enable 3D acceleration in Debian Etch (4.0).  In this one we will see how to do the same for Debian Lenny – the [...]

Purpose:
This blog entry will explain:
1. How to enable 3D acceleration under Debian Linux and may be perhaps under any other Linux distribution.
2. How to test if 3D acceleration is actually working or not.
Step 1: Find out if 3D acceleration is already enabled or not?
Give the following command:
# glxinfo | less
or
# glxinfo | less | grep [...]