Maybe your hardware is a little too new for the distro and the x server for the video may not be available in the 2.2 .14 (if memory serves right) kernel. One solution might to contact pcsurplus.com. They had a sale on S3 Virge Trio 4mb video cards last week for $3.95. The S3 Trio 4mb is a close to as close to a John Q Public video card you'll find and will run on just about everything including a match book cover with a picture of a penguin drawn on it.
Glenn Williams wrote: > > Hello, group: > > After my third attempt to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Pentium III 1Gig, > 1000M Intel machine, I still cannot satisfy the install script that I > have a viable monitor (Mag View / Pro View VM 700E) and and video > adapter card (Rage 128 GL 4X AGP 4X w/ 32M video memory). > > After the installation completes, I've tried running Xconfigurator from > the console prompt, testing many of the modes possible with the card > and monitor - to no avail. I've tried running exactly the same video > configuration I previously used when running RedHat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 on > the exact same hardware. > > So why am I not running SuSE 7.3 or RedHat 7.2 if **they** work OK? > Because a couple of newbie friends are running Mandrake 7.2 and want me > to run it so I can help sort out **their** problems. ;0) Thing is, > they ain't got no problems! > > I have attached relevant error messages. > > I'm ready to throw in the towel - but first... > > Any suggestions? > -- > Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 > Powered by RedHat Linux 7.2 - KMail 2.2-11 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: Xconfig.errormsg.txt > Xconfig.errormsg.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: base64 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
