[newbie] 7.2 install problems
Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square. if I touch the mouse at all, the monitor goes to standby then comes back to a fresh login screen. If I ignore the mouse and just type my username password into the boxes, tab down to go and hit the spacebar, I can see the button push in, then the screen does exactly the same thing. I'm then back at the login screen. I nuked 7.2 and installed 7.1, which works with no apparent problems. Has anyone seen this before? I suspect it is something with my video card driver or my mouse driver, but I can't pin it down. Since 7.1 works, I'm not in any panic, but when the next version comes out I'd like to not be afraid to try it. Thanks, Paul
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems
Paul Becker wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square. if I touch the mouse at all, the monitor goes to standby then comes back to a fresh login screen. If I ignore the mouse and just type my username password into the boxes, tab down to go and hit the spacebar, I can see the button push in, then the screen does exactly the same thing. I'm then back at the login screen. I nuked 7.2 and installed 7.1, which works with no apparent problems. Has anyone seen this before? I suspect it is something with my video card driver or my mouse driver, but I can't pin it down. Since 7.1 works, I'm not in any panic, but when the next version comes out I'd like to not be afraid to try it. Thanks, Paul PaulI believe that if you were to reinstall 7.2 and choose the 3.3.6 version of XF86 rather than allowing the default 4.01 vertsion to be installed that your problems with 7.2 would cease to exist. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems
Ok, I'd like to try it since I haven't customized 7.1 too much yet. Which install option should I choose? Intermediate or Expert? Thanks, Paul - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Paul Becker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems Paul Becker wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square. if I touch the mouse at all, the monitor goes to standby then comes back to a fresh login screen. If I ignore the mouse and just type my username password into the boxes, tab down to go and hit the spacebar, I can see the button push in, then the screen does exactly the same thing. I'm then back at the login screen. I nuked 7.2 and installed 7.1, which works with no apparent problems. Has anyone seen this before? I suspect it is something with my video card driver or my mouse driver, but I can't pin it down. Since 7.1 works, I'm not in any panic, but when the next version comes out I'd like to not be afraid to try it. Thanks, Paul PaulI believe that if you were to reinstall 7.2 and choose the 3.3.6 version of XF86 rather than allowing the default 4.01 vertsion to be installed that your problems with 7.2 would cease to exist. -- Alan