Is there a way of discovering which packages are used by a particular installation?

I am trying to build a minimal Debian install on a PC which already has Antix 7.5 on it. The screen resolution in Antix is fine, but I can't get better than 800x600 in Debian, I wish to know what packages Antix is using so that I can install them on the Debian partition.

The PC is fairly old and has onboard graphics.

Hope someone can give me a pointer on this - thanks!

Rayburn:

I'm sorry that I do not have an answer to your particular question. However, I wonder if you have considered or tried Antix base to build your minimal install? At least that would take care of your resolution issue.

I hope that someone else more knowledgeable can help you.

Pedro

What driver is it using now? Probably vesa? If you know what chip it's using then you can load the appropriate driver. Even most of the old chips are capable of larger resolutions, 1024x768 would be a minimum I think.

eriefisher wrote:What driver is it using now? Probably vesa? If you know what chip it's using then you can load the appropriate driver. Even most of the old chips are capable of larger resolutions, 1024x768 would be a minimum I think.

That is the question! I've no idea what chip/driver it's using, that is why I was asking if there was a way to find this info out, thanks for the reply though erie.

plvera

Thanks, that is a good suggestion, it was just that I was trying to follow the instructions in this thread:


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No reason why the same thing could not be done on AntiX though I suppose.

lspci should show you what the manufacturer is and if you look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf the driver will be listed.

Thanks for that erie, I will check it out and report back.

I'd just copy xorg.conf from Antix to Debian. Tried it form Mepis to Debian and Ubuntu and it worked like a charm. Well can't see why it wouldn't, after all 7.5 is Debian-based, more than Mepis.
Make a backup of original file first, of course.