On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Damian's Mailer wrote:
> At 09:48 21/08/2001, you wrote:
> >Hey everyone.
> >
> >Now we get to my problems. The display during the install is awful
> >in one of two ways depending on if I check the 'Force video' option on
> >BootX. I either get a nice looking display but the ADB mouse responds
> >extremely slowly or I get a squished display with odd colors, the images
> >wrap strangely on the screen, but the mouse functions fine. When the
> >mouse is unresponsive, the keyboard also responds poorly (very, very
> >slow).
>
> I got the display problem using an early Bondi Blue iMac, with a meager 2MB
> video display and 32MB of system memory. It appears that the problem
> stemmed from selecting a video resolution that the machine did not
> appreciate. Initially I Chose 800x600x32bit, and it gave a screen in grey
> 1 screen height and 4 screen widths wide. The problem was solved by
> running DrakConf and setting the video colour level to 16 bit on my
> particular machine.
I may be missing something, but it sounds like you encountered your
problem after having installed RC1 and rebooted. I am encountering
this display problem during my install. They could both be related
and perhaps fixed in similar ways. I'm just unfamiliar with the
full install process for Mandrake.
How would I start up the graphical installer by hand? Is there a
console fallback mode I can select through BootX using a provided
option? This would at least allow me to install the build and then
worry about X later if I want to.
>
> >I also noticed several messages on the first console. The same message
> >kept scrolling by which basically said the default locale was set
> >incorrectly in a gtk module (perl I think?) and it could not find
> >the correct information. I doubt that has anything to do with the
> >problems I have but it could be something to clean up later.
>
> I also had this on an initial install after choosing the UK location. I
> defaulted to US on the next install and the error went away. I didn't not
> any real problems apart from the error messages though.
At the point I see the errors, I have not selected any locations or
country codes. I agree that it does not appear to have a real effect
that I can tell.
>
> Damian.
>
>
