* Stardate: 2001-07-01 22:15
* Incoming subspace signal from "Bruce E.Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> Last night we installed Mandrake 8.0 on a friend's computer. He does
> not have a CDROM drive, but he does have a cable modem, so we tried
> the network install. That is, we booted from a network.img floppy and
> went through the whole program. It mostly worked, but we had a few
> problems. Because all we did was boot from floppy, we don't know the
> name of the program we were using.
> After some fussing, we ended up with one unsolved problem.
> X dumps core. This is weird because it was using X the whole time
> we were installing. Mandrake is a graphical install! When we got to
> the "Configuring X" portion of the installation, the only question I
> recall answering was monitor type. Could putting in a monitor type
> that it doesn't like cause it to dump core? In all my fussing with X
> in the past, I've gotten all kinds of crazy screens. Why would this
> simply exit? Anyway, I'd like to go through the X configuration again,
> so I figured I would do this through the Mandrake setup (if I could
> figure out what that's called...thus my question). I thought Mandrake
> was based on Red Hat, which used to have something called
> XConfigurator, but I couldn't find that. If nothing else, I will just
> edit the XF86Config file, but I'd like to go through the setup again
> to see what Mandrake's idea of what's going is.
> Thanks in advance, Bruce
For XFree configuration: /usr/sbin/XFdrake
Other configuration: /usr/sbin/drakxconf
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