On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:29, Tim Werner wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for the info and advice. > > I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot > manager, so that part I'm happy with. > > As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried > all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test screen that doesn't > work, or I get an error message about "no keyboard configured", or other > confusing error, and a suggestion that I should try to change some > parameters. > > Any attempt to select XFree3 resulted in suggestion to try some other > parameters. Same thing with attempt to select XFree4 with VESA. Just about > the only config that actually resulted in a test screen was the one with my > actual SiS card (as auto-detected) > > [emotional outburst on] > Apparently Xfree is still not ready for prime-time, which is a little > discouraging to me. This really isn't any easier than it was 9 years ago. > >From the mailing list and other linux-centric web sites that I've been > reading, I can tell that a lot of other people are at least able to get the > desktop up and running. I really expected to get past this point before I > started running into trouble. :-( > [emotional outburst off] > > Not sure where to turn at this point. I seem to have a combination of bad X > support for my video card, and Mandrake X-configuration bugs. Probably I'll > have to wait until broadband becomes available in my area and try redhat or > else the next rev of mandrake.
you know about CheapBytes? http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart Gabriel > Maybe after a nap things will seem different > and I'll try something else.
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