from the quill of Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >
> > - Video resolution sucks bigtime.
> >
> > After selecting video modes I got an interlaced mode at 1280x1024
> even
> > though I selected my MAG DX1795 monitor which can do 1280x1024 at
> 60Hz
> > NI easily on my Matrox Millenium II.
> >
>
> strange, that's XFree who chooses the resolution to use...
OK, the problem with this was that while my monitor, a MAG DX1795 has a
horizontal sync rate of 30kHz - 65kHz, the install only put 30-64 into
the XF86Config file. That last kHz was enough to make the server trim
out some very usable video modes leaving only some very unusable modes.
Simply changing the HorizSync to "30-65" and restarting X made the
screen look wonderful again!
> > - The Perl-GTK dependancy for package rpmdrake was not satisfied
> during
> > installation.
> >
>
> nasty. never happened here... could you mail me your /root/auto_inst*
> and
> /root/ddebug.log ?
Mailed to you separately.
> look at /var/log/urpmi.log for more
> i know error messages could appear more nicely :-/
Well sadly enough, there is nothing more useful there either (please
excuse the wrapping):
Thu Dec 30 12:28:54 1999 urpmi called with --X control-center
Thu Dec 30 12:28:56 1999
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/oxygen/Mandrake
/RPMS/control-center-1.0.51-2mdk.i586.rpm
Thu Dec 30 12:32:26 1999 urpmi called with --X control-center
Thu Dec 30 12:32:27 1999
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/oxygen/Mandrake
/RPMS/control-center-1.0.51-2mdk.i586.rpm
Thu Dec 30 12:33:51 1999 urpmi called with --X xmms-gnome
Thu Dec 30 12:33:52 1999
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/oxygen/Mandrake
/RPMS/xmms-gnome-0.9.5.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
Thu Dec 30 12:40:22 1999 urpmi called with --X DrakConf
Thu Dec 30 12:40:22 1999
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/oxygen/Mandrake
/RPMS/DrakConf-0.34-7mdk.i586.rpm
Mon Jan 3 20:58:39 2000 urpmi called with --X linuxconf
Mon Jan 3 20:58:49 2000
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/oxygen/Mandrake
/RPMS/linuxconf-1.16r10-3mdk.i586.rpm
http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ox
ygen/Mandrake/RPMS/gd-1.7.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
That's it. rpmdrake still does not work correctly.
Now for some new issues I found while continuing on with working with
Oxygen:
- On my (gnome) desktop there is a DrakConf icon which is of course the
file ~/.gnome-desktop/DrakConf/ but it is symlinked to
"/usr/bin/kdesu -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf'":
lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian brian 43 Jan 3 21:39 DrakConf ->
/usr/bin/kdesu -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf'
I am wondering when did this kind of symlink became legal? :-)
- Lothar fails to detect my tulip ethernet card. I have two ethernet
cards, a 3com 3c59x and some kind of card that uses the "tulip"
driver.
- only the 3com was in my conf.modules file bound to eth0
- I had to populate conf.modules manually for the tulip on eth1
(or use linuxconf)
- What is the "Mandrake" way of configuring additional ethernet cards?
Is it linuxconf?
- rpmdrake/urpmi still fails with very little information
- Who/what/when/how is esound (esd) supposed to get started/run? It was
not running on my Oxygen machine's desktop by default. It also seems
that it has been restricted to being run by root and group "audio".
- Lothar totally failed to config my soundcard. It complained of some
kind of conflict when it ran the isapnptools utility for setting up
isapnp. I can get the details if they are needed.
- My card is a soundblaster 32AWE PnP.
- I selected the "framebuffer" kernel at install time and it was
installed but not "activated":
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 30 11:19 System.map ->
System.map-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174024 Dec 28 17:23
System.map-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182454 Dec 28 16:57
System.map-2.2.14-12mdkfb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 30 11:51 boot.0800
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 3 18:58 boot.0820
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 18 02:02 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Oct 18 02:02 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350518 Dec 30 11:49
initrd-2.2.14-12mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 30 11:49 initrd.img ->
initrd-2.2.14-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365 Jan 3 20:05 kernel.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Dec 30 10:41 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 16896 Jan 3 20:55 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Dec 30 11:51 message
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec 30 11:19 module-info ->
module-info-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Dec 28 17:28
module-info-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Dec 28 16:57
module-info-2.2.14-12mdkfb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 Oct 18 02:02 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Dec 30 11:51 us.klt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 30 11:19 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 615961 Dec 28 17:23
vmlinuz-2.2.14-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 644151 Dec 28 16:57
vmlinuz-2.2.14-12mdkfb
- If you are going to use the ALSA sound drivers you really should
include an up-to-date alsa-lib RPM and probably an update to date
alsa-utils RPM in the distro (not contrib).
- Also would it be difficult to have the kernel package "provide"
the alsa-driver "package" (for dependancies)?
- Is ~/.gnomerc not run to start a gnome-session anymore? On my heavily
hacked (especially gnome-wise) 6.1 box, if .gnomerc exists in ~ then
gnome-session runs that to start your session.
- This does not seem to be happening on Oxygen.
Well that should keep you guys busy for a bit. If there is anything
more I can do to help, just let me know.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX
Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
