Have the same and mdk 8.
No problems.
But I didn't select the test !
Reconfigured with xf86config.
And I had to copy my /etc/X11/XF86Config to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
If this can help.
Eric MC
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 08:10, you wrote:
| I have an S3 Virge generic video card (86c325) and the ONLY Mdk distro
| that has allowed me to complete installation without problems was 7.2,
| and that only worked using Expert. I've had no problems with other
| distros (Red Hat, Definite, Caldera, Storm, Corel, Debian). This seems
| to be a very big problem with Mandrake as it took from my first ever
| Linux distro of 7.0 'till 7.2 to fix the problem. Mdk 8 beta 1 could
| complete X installation, but sometimes I got an unusable display (three
| copies of everything, very jagged). From beta 2 onwards the only way
| I've been able to test is by reinstalling 7.2 and doing an upgrade.
| I've ben reading of this problem in the Mandrake newsgroup ever since I
| first started using it. I have sent bug reports and posted to this
| group, but have never had a reply. Is anyone going to fix this problem,
| and the one that freezes the install in anything but expert when it
| trues to detect scsi (I have none)?
|
| Thank you for the reply I hope to get.
|
| Lesley Lawless
|
| Mohammad DAMT wrote:
| > Hello,
| > tried to install mdk8 this afternoon, results:
| > - install freezed when I tried to look at hardware info at eth install
| > (autodetect on, eth card detected --> RTL-8029)
| > no mouse no keyboard, even sysreq magic was dead
| > I pushed reset button, update installation, and didn't have guts to
| > look at the hardware info - install freezed when started to initiate X
| > configuration
| > reset again (no mouse/kbd/dead again)
| > repeated install procedures until X, and freezed AGAIN
| > reset again, I took the CD out
| > boot to installed system, but couldn't login,
| > guess what ?? /etc/pam.d/passwd is corrupted as binary file,
| > /bin/login corrupted also,
| > so I reinstall those files with rpm from CDROM
| > so I can login...
| > then I ran drakexconf, freeze again, no mouse no keybd sysreq dead
| > reset
| > then I ran Xconfigurator, it called drakexconf too, dead again
| > reset
| > ran XFree86 -configure, goes perfecto...
| >
| > my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2x
| >
| > --
| > Mohammad DAMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mdamt.net
| > "nyai dasime ngeglundung, glundang glundung, nyemplung ke kali ciliwung",
| > Nyai Dasime Kembang Pejambon, Benjamin S.
