At 01:02 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 16:36, Bill Mudry wrote:
> This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1.
> Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel
> took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to
> work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue
> screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but
> there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work
> at all. This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch
> of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt.
>
> The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even
> another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been
> able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at
> least the machine can take commands.
>
> I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my
> field of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui
> screen and browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What
> recommendations do you have?
How long did you wait? I upgraded my daughter's pc to 10.1 from 10 and on
bootup, it did the same. I left it for apprx. 10 minutes, then the graphical
login appeared. Never did it again, so might just be configuring?
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I waited for some time actually. There is always some chance that I should have waited longer but I have doubts. Meanwhile, I went back into XFdrake and was able to up the resolution to 1280 x 1024. Its what I prefer anyway. The test showed that the card and monitor (Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 17x) can support this resolution.
When I put in startx at the prompt, I got an interesting change. The screen
went blue again but only for 1 second or so. Then it changed to a bright red
with the cursor still in the middle. It stayed that way for a few seconds and
then dropped down to the prompt again. The screen reported the following
error:
Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a"
(once-only module, 135962511)
Something is still keeping it from proceeding further to where all icons come
up. How essential is that file? What does it do? Any further suggestions?
Still hopeful :-)
Bill Mudry
Bill; Change to the "vesa" driver we spoke about yesterday. You don't have a 3D driver installed at this point and "X" is trying to load one because it's detecting your GeForce card.
Right now, that system doesn't have the horsepower to support 3D graphics, but you should be able to get your desktop and decent graphics using the vesa driver.
By the way, did you manage to find out which video card you have in that system?
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