Joel,
I have seen at least two causes of this behavior. Mandrake 6 is based on RH6
which uses Xconfigurator, a RedHat X setup program.
1. Xconfigurator doesn't have your video chipset in its database. It displays
the video card/chip list and asks to the user to choose. If the wrong
card/chipset is chosen then Xconfigurator will give you the 'something's wrong'
error message when it tries to test your choices.
2. The video card/chipset is correct but the user chooses a monitor with timing
characteristics quite different from the actual monitor.
You can try the following:
1. From the Mandrake installation CD install
XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3.1-58mdk.i586.rpm
2. Run XF86Setup. If you know the Vertical & Horizontal frequency ranges of
your monitor you can set them on the monitor page. BEWARE! incorrect settings
can damage a monitor.
good luck
scott
On 12-Aug-99 Joel Doucet wrote:
> hello,
> I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to
> responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me
> what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system"
> and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to
> select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom,
> and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run
> the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video
> card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me
> the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped
> of or can i do something about it?
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Date: 12-Aug-99
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