On October 26, 2002 08:36 am, Jimmy Montague wrote: > Hi, Everybody: > > I downloaded the isos and burned them onto 3 CDs. > I booted from CD1 and ran the install per directions. > It's slick until comes time to configure the video/Xwindows environment. > There I hit a stump. I've installed 4 times, now, and still can't get it > right. > > System is: > > FIC VA503+ mobo > AMD K6-2/350 processor > 256 mb Crucial RAM > 2 Maxtor 13 gb hdds > 1 generic 50x CD-ROM > 1 fdd > Creative Ensoniqe sound > ATI 3D Rage Pro vid card with 8 mb RAM > Compaq V50 monitor > IBM model M keyboard (101 key, US English) > Logitech MouseMan PS2 > > Problem is that during the install, Xconfigurator sees the vid card as > an ATI Mach 64 with a Utah chipset. Default config is 16 million 24-bit > color, 800x600 res. > > If I accept that and run a test, the screen goes black for about 30 > seconds and then comes back on. If I then tell it to load X at boot-up, > what happens is that the system reboots and looks good until it loads X. > Then the screen goes black and stays that way forever. > > So I reinstall. Tell Xconfigurator that the vid card is really an ATI > Rage Pro 3D. Then, no matter what config I set up (65k colors @ 16-bit, > for example) the system returns an error when I test it. > > The error is: "You must specify a keyboard in XF86Config try to change > some parameters." (sic) > > So I boot to the command line as root. Issue a command xf86config. Run > through all of THAT. At the end, it tells me it's going to save the > configuration, and then it saves. When I tell it "startx", I get > execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2) > giving up > xinit: No such file or directory > > After install no. 4, I'm whipped. > > Ideas, anyone? > > Thanks. > > Nick Mach 64 Utah drivers are correct. I use the same card along with Xfree 4.2.1. It may be choking on your monitor. Try using generic settings. I am using 1024x768 @ 70 and 800x600 at 24 as final. Works perfect
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