Re: [newbie] Drake 9 don't do video
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: You use Xfree 4.2.1 on a generic monitor -- but do you set Xfree to 3d or 2d? Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: Been there. Done that. Three times now. Same result. It doesn't work. More suggestions, anyone? Thanks Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drake 9 don't do video
Spencer wrote: On October 26, 2002 03:37 pm, Nick Adams wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: You use Xfree 4.2.1 on a generic monitor -- but do you set Xfree to 3d or 2d? Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: Been there. Done that. Three times now. Same result. It doesn't work. More suggestions, anyone? Thanks Nick Nick Try to get to runlevel 3. If you can get in as root, try running /usr/sbin/ddxinfos. This will give you the EISA ID of your monitor and may help you debug this thing. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I fixed the problem, Spencer. What I did was change the vid card. Took out the ATI 3D Rage Pro. Put in a Hercules Terminator 128 3D. System installed perfectly and now works like a champ. New Problem: I have sound as both root and as user, but can't play music CDs. How do I mount a CD drive and then get the OS to call CD Player when I load in a disk? Jimmy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drake 9 don't do video
Erik wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 17:37, Nick Adams wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: You use Xfree 4.2.1 on a generic monitor -- but do you set Xfree to 3d or 2d? Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: Been there. Done that. Three times now. Same result. It doesn't work. More suggestions, anyone? Thanks Nick Nick, I'm running the same chipset (according to the setup in 9.0). Do don't say what OS you ran on this machine before..or what resolution or color depth. Without that info, it looks like your card handles the default settings, but your monitor is choking on them. I'd suggest dropping back to 800x600 at 16-bit and see if it will work. You need to find a setting that works with your monitor, then you can experiment with the color depth and resolution to get optimal display. If you are doing the setup manually, you might also check the frequency that is being used with the monitor...a freq setting that is too high (or too low) could be a show-stopper, too. The default for my card (ATI mach64 Utah) and monitor (Optiquest Q55) worked fine...XFree 4.2.1, 2D (I also have only 8MB onboard vid ram) and 1024x768, but my monitor will handle the 24-bit color depth. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Erik: I tried EVERY ATI driver in Drake 9. None of them work with this card. The card is a 3D Rage Pro. Drake 9 HAS no driver for that card listed, and the default (Utah) driver doesn't work. That monitor and vid card worked fine with a SuSE 7.3 distro for six months, before I installed Drake 9. I had them running at 1024x768, 16 million colors, etc. That card and that monitor have worked with DOS and Win 3.x, with Win 95, 98, ME and 2k, with Corel Linux and with SuSE. They don't work with Drake 9 -- go figure what's at fault. Using Drake 9, as I said above, I tried every ATI driver in the selection. None worked. I got refresh specs off the Web for that monitor and tried plugging them into generic monitor configurations in Drake 9. It didn't work. But gee. I swapped the ATI 3D Rage Pro vid card for a Hercules Terminator 128 3D and everything works just fine. The monitor monitors and the accelerator accelerates. I say Drake 9 DOES do video, but not with an ATI 3D Rage Pro vid card. Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Drake 9 don't do video
Hello, Everyone. This is to let you know that I solved the vid card problem by swapping vid cards. I'm content with the way things are at this point. Everything is fine. Problem solved. Thank you all for your kind responses to what are undoubtedly some pretty dumb questions. I appreciate it. And now, as far as I'm concerned, this thread is dead. Thanks again. Nick Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
