Gerald.....try telling the install that your monitor is an IBM
8514 (or 8507).
Alan
Gerald Davies wrote:
>
> I have the following hardware:
>
> P75 16meg RAM, S3 virge graphics card, IBM PS1 monitor, no cdrom.
> I am attempting to install mandrake 7.02 via local ftp.
>
> Upon installation it gets to the stage where the graphics/monitor tests take
> place. Essentially, it detects the graphics card correctly then moves on to
> the monitor tests....at this stage it repeatedly fails over and over again..
> no matter what settings i choose. So if i choose to skip this part and
> complete the installation...after the installation it then reboots.
>
> After rebooting i cannot then login as root even though i know the password
> to be correct (no caps or tabs included when i entered the password). I can
> successfully login as the other user ..but not root.
>
> I've also tried booting in single user mode and issuing a 'passwd root' but
> this also has no effect.
>
> So i have no access to Xwindows...nor can i login as root.
>
> The monitor is extremely old (circa 93) but it runs windoze 95/98 !!
> I think these are some of its specs ( i digged around the IBM site for
> these):
> 640 x 350 (70Hz)
> 640 x 480 (60Hz)
> 720 x 400 (70Hz)
>
> please help!!!
