>
> I'm bringing up a question or two on this because although it's not the
> same problem, there are similarities. P200MMX, 3.3GB HDD, 160MB RAM,
> S3Virge 86c325 graphics card with 4MB video RAM. X cannot be installed
> in 8 at all, any version. Even doing an expert text install, along comes
> the graphical DrakX and the whole machine freezes solid. At least a
> graceful crash is preferable to having to hit reset and use fsck in the
> hope of being able to rescue your data. By doing an upgrade from 7.2 I
> can get a working X server, but I still have the freeze and rest, and
> then the manual fsck before I can get X working.
> When is this going to be fixed? I've used every version of Mandrake
> since 7.0 and the only one that would install a working X server without
> freezing was 7.2. Could somebody maybe compare the code and produce a
> patch? This isn't only an installation problem, after installation the
> only way to change anything that would normally use drakx is by editing
> the conf file by hand, because drakx freezes the system any time it is
> used.
> I think this is my 6th time of bringing this up on cooker.
>
> --
> Anna
>
What if you don't use framebuffer
