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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mick
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:19 PM
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> Subject: [newbie] New LM 8.0 Box, not much joy! Help!!
>
>
> Hello List,
>
> Just got back from purchasing the new Linux box.
> I got an Asus m/b A7A266, an AMD Athlon T/Bird 1 ghz. 512mb
> of PC-133 Memory.
> I thought I was okay in the assumption that most ATI video
> cards would work
> in Linux, especially LM 8.0, I got an ATI Expert 2000 AGP w/32mb.
> The new HD is a Quantum Fireball 40 gig 7200rpm.
> I then loaded up the new LM 8.0. Everything appeared to go
> well until setting
> up the X Server. This brings up my first question about LM in general.
> Why is the setting up of the X Server and the video and
> monitor hardware left
> to be the very last thing in the line of items in installation?
> From reading problems day after day on the list it appears
> that this is the
> main problem that arises 95% of the time during installs.
> Anyway, to get back to the new install, the first error
> occurred after my X
> didn't come up. At the prompt I ran XFdrake. The first thing
> I noticed was no
> ATI Expert 2000 AGP in the list to choose from.
> If that wasn't bad enough then came the second very annoying error:
> Probable hardware bug: Clock timer configuration lost.
> Probably VIA 686a
> motherboard. Restoring chip configuration:
> This keeps coming up every few minutes. Hmm...I wonder if I
> shouldn't have
> had chose the GMT time zone option?
> And then if that wasn't enough, you'd think that after all
> these weeks of
> using LM 7.2, that I'd know by now how to powerdown from the
> prompt! I have
> always used a GUI login and logout! I have tried HALT,
> POWEROFF, EXIT, TERM,
> and many other words I can't repeat here!
> Please, what is the Linux command to power down and off?
> Many thanks,
> Mick
>
The shutdown command is shutdown now.
You can also use the command reboot and turn your machine
off during post.
The ATI Expert2000 works great in Mandrake.(I have 2}
Unless you have an IRQ conflict which causes the card nor to be properly
seen
the installation should have auto set it up as a Rage128.
I usually change that senting to the Rage Fury Agp to register
the 32MB.
With either setting you shold still be optioned for X 4.03 w/ 3d hardware
acceleration.
Charles
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
