Nick Adams wrote:
Spencer wrote:
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
Spence
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Spencer:
You use Xfree 4.2.1 on a generic monitor -- but do you set Xfree to 3d
or 2d?
Nick
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Spencer:
Been there. Done that. Three times now.
Same result. It doesn't work.
More suggestions, anyone?
Thanks
Nick
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