[newbie] Video question...
Now that Mandrake's all installed and running nicely, my next question is how can I configure XFree or XWhatever to run in a certain video mode for my TV out on the video card? Specs: NVidia GeForce 256 (Yes, I was having problems with the new drivers as well, so I kept XFree86-config-4 the way it was) What I find odd is that the video out displays the command line prompt beautifully. (I can boot up into the command line, as X crashes when I start up.) I would think that: a) Updating the NVidia drivers might help. (I attempted this, as I said above, and my XFree config got all FUBARed up and I had to restore the backup file to get X to start back up) b) Configuring the XFree86 config files to handle the output. (It has to be either 640x480 or 800x600. I'm looking for the exact spec on that, to no avail) Not knowing how to adequately update the XFree config, I haven't tried that completely. The escapade with NVidia last night made me think twice about pushing it any farther. Thanks. Kris What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 - Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com - http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
During a time of great evil, 09:56 AM 30-9-02 -0700, shane was arrested for treason by saying: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 September 2002 9:15 pm, The Antiwesley did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4, not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie, ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them. install should proceed fine. now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the real running driver. ;-) you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed. This did the trick. It was choking on ytalk for sure, as xmovie installed fine. It's up and running beautifully now, thanks, Shane! :) -Kris What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 - Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com - http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install freeze
I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in the install process, just before it's time to pick out my root password. It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10 seconds complete. I had 8.2 on, and it worked fine, but the boot system stopped working, and seeing as 9.0 came out, I decided to upgrade. :) Any ideas on why it would freeze up? Thanks. Kris, aka The Antiwesley What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him. - Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02 - Get Warped! High Quality Web Hosting starting at $5/Month www.warped.com - http://www.antiwesley.comICQ:24746540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - A Geek for all ages! - Dave Adler, PMEB mailing list, 3/14/99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
