Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 6 2003 08:12 am, ed tharp wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:42, HaywireMac wrote:
> > On 06 Sep 2003 08:25:37 -0400
> >
> > ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > > gee,, George Lucas, and Industrial Light and Magic choose
> > > Linux. AMD and NVidia just for that.
> > > the August Linux Journal has a great writeup about the
> > > Rackspace built linux powered ILM 'deathstar' render-farm.
> > > some 1500 AMD athlon 1600, on 750 MoBos, each with 2 gigs
> > > ram.
> > > ahhh to dream of such power... just wait a few years (like
> > > 20),, I swear I will have that much power.
> >
> > that's comparing apples and oranges. they are using Linux for
> > the raw power, not too support an advanced flat panel display.
> >
> > there's a difference between computing power and hardware
> > support, no?
> >
> > I betcha they still use Mac's at the end-user level, the Linux
> > rendering farms are just for nuclear-powered computing at the
> > level of drawing huge amounts of polygons in a short time (and
> > without crashing, LOL!).
>
> the article does not say what sort of display they are using,
> only that use Kodak Cineon for film capture, OpenEXR (an Open
> Source Software released by ILM)  as a new floating point image
> format, and does mention that Cinepaint (formerly
> Film-Gimp),Alais|wavefront Maya, pixar renderman and Mental
> Images Mental Ray as the software run. It does say however that
> the desktops are Linux, and that after everyone goes home,
> instead of shutting them down, they are included in the cluster
> for use as render nodes, considerably increasing the load that
> can be handled (some 70 terrabytes of info a day over the
> network).

 These large enterprises sign licensing agreements, and make 
deals for closed source proprietary hardware support. They'd need 
to in any event because of their specialized needs, regardless of 
OS. Something the open source community can't and won't do.
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 6 2003 06:32 am, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100
>
> Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> >  this
> > will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to
> > hate MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out
> > into the wild
> >
> > unknown of  linux  phew!

> Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in
> hardware support in Linux, but there is a very good reason.
>
> When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case
> I believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined
> up at MS's door to get software support, while Linux hackers have
> to beg and plead and hack and reverse engineer support for the
> latest and greatest.
>
> My point is, considering the way Linux is deliberately and
> egregiously shut out of the hardware advancement train with
> closed-source drivers and the like, it's a miracle that Linux
> developers are able to even keep up. These people are to be
> lauded and praised for their continues efforts, in many if not
> most cases for *free*.
>
> You don't choose Linux, as I think you implied, for the whiz-bang
> multimedia support, though it is fairly good for that too, you
> choose it because it is an alternative to the insecurity,
> instability, and wickedly bloodthirsty licensing and upgrade
> paths of MS OS's.
>
> Am I getting this right Tom? Tom? Wake up Tom!

  You did fine. Tho I'd stress blaming Bill Gates and his licensing 
agreements, arm twisting, and shady backroom deals, rather than the 
hardware vendors. M$ develops many windoze hardware drivers for, or 
in cooperation with the vendors, and forbids releasing any source 
in order to protect M$ IP. Yeah right. Truth is Billy Goat doesn't 
want the latest and greatest to work properly on any other OS's but 
his. M$ can dictate to the hardware manufactures because Windoze is 
over 90% of their market. 

   The result is the same old poor cooperation with the open source 
community. What's needed is an open source spy to infiltrate TSMC 
(http://www.tsmc.com/english/default.htm). They make most of the 
chips hardware manufacturers and vendors use. Have all the plans 
and specs ;)  EG, they make all the chips for both ATI and nVidia, 
most of the latest other video, sound, network chips, et al out 
there. Then Linux would soon have better drivers and hardware 
support than Windoze ;>   jus need to find someone willing to 
go to prison for a long time ;(
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 2:06 pm, Pete Stean wrote:
> Thanks folks - a simple problem by the looks of it but I couldn't see
> the wood for the trees - here's hoping they're all that easy - now to
> find out if anyone has ever managed to get an MS Trackball Optical to
> work !!
>
> Thanks again
>
> Petey. A grateful noob!
>

If you are interested it will be possible to use the DVI cable with a little 
editing of the X11 Config file. But maybe you should get to know the system a 
bit first :-)

derek

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:05, Pete Stean wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice - that doesn't work though unfortunately - none of 
> > the geforce drivers give me anything other than a blank screen on test..
> > 
> > :-(
> > 
> > Petey
> 
> Dot not goot.
> Zumptink ist wong.
> 
> You should at least see SOMETHING - anything - even wavering lines; have
> you tried different monitor settings? Cuz even if it ain't the right
> driver, it should TELL you it "can't display the test" or similar...are
> you using "generic plug'n'play" monitor settings - or did MDK find the
> correct (supposedly correct) monitor?
> 
> stephen kuhn - owner

he figured it out I think, it is a dual head card, and only the analog
head is active until twinview or Xfree sets up the DVI head 


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread HaywireMac
On 06 Sep 2003 08:25:37 -0400
ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> gee,, George Lucas, and Industrial Light and Magic choose Linux. AMD
> and NVidia just for that.
> the August Linux Journal has a great writeup about the Rackspace built
> linux powered ILM 'deathstar' render-farm. some 1500 AMD athlon 1600,
> on 750 MoBos, each with 2 gigs ram. 
> ahhh to dream of such power... just wait a few years (like 20),, I
> swear I will have that much power. 

that's comparing apples and oranges. they are using Linux for the raw
power, not too support an advanced flat panel display.

there's a difference between computing power and hardware support, no?

I betcha they still use Mac's at the end-user level, the Linux rendering
farms are just for nuclear-powered computing at the level of drawing
huge amounts of polygons in a short time (and without crashing, LOL!).

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:32, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100
> Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> 
> >  this 
> > will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate
> > MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild
> > 
> > unknown of  linux  phew!
> 
> Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in hardware
> support in Linux, but there is a very good reason.
> 
> When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case I
> believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined up at
> MS's door to get software support, while Linux hackers have to beg and
> plead and hack and reverse engineer support for the latest and greatest.
> 
> My point is, considering the way Linux is deliberately and egregiously
> shut out of the hardware advancement train with closed-source drivers
> and the like, it's a miracle that Linux developers are able to even keep
> up. These people are to be lauded and praised for their continues
> efforts, in many if not most cases for *free*.
> 
> You don't choose Linux, as I think you implied, for the whiz-bang
> multimedia support, 
gee,, George Lucas, and Industrial Light and Magic choose Linux. AMD and
NVidia just for that.
the August Linux Journal has a great writeup about the Rackspace built
linux powered ILM 'deathstar' render-farm. some 1500 AMD athlon 1600, on
750 MoBos, each with 2 gigs ram. 
ahhh to dream of such power... just wait a few years (like 20),, I swear
I will have that much power. 




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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:07, Pete Stean wrote:
> Selected the 1024x768 generic flatpanel - and I have a DVI and analog in 
> on the monitor and DVI and analog out on the card. I only have the DVI 
> cable connected (why bother with analog) - could it be as simple as 
> trying to install with the analog cable connected instead?? 
yes


>   :-|   this 
> will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate MS 
> but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild 
> unknown of  linux  phew!
> 
> Derek Jennings wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:31 am, Pete Stean wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well...
> >>
> >>Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart
> >>from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later)
> >>including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test
> >>button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour
> >>depth just gives me a black screen
> >>
> >>I continued with the installation anyway and after another hour or so it
> >>booted fine - hit the return key to run linux and it does all the xx
> >>[OK] lines until it gets to "xinextd." at which point I get a black
> >>screen. I'm thinking maybe its actually loaded the gui at this point but
> >>I can't see it cos of the above problem
> >>
> >>Any ideas folks? BTW plug and play aware OS is SWITCHED OFF in my BIOS
> >>at the moment but Windoze XP explicitly says it should be and I am
> >>running (well hopefully) a dual boot system - plug and play aware os is
> >>important in linux right??
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance - please nothing too technical cos I am a complete
> >>noob - please let me know if I can provide further info to help diagnose
> >>this
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>Peter
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Is your video card dual head?
> >If so the GUI may be appearing on the 'other' output.
> >
> >You might also try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see if you get a text based console
> >( Ctl + Alt +F7 puts you back to the GUI )
> >
> >derek
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100
Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

>  this 
> will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate
> MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild
> 
> unknown of  linux  phew!

Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in hardware
support in Linux, but there is a very good reason.

When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case I
believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined up at
MS's door to get software support, while Linux hackers have to beg and
plead and hack and reverse engineer support for the latest and greatest.

My point is, considering the way Linux is deliberately and egregiously
shut out of the hardware advancement train with closed-source drivers
and the like, it's a miracle that Linux developers are able to even keep
up. These people are to be lauded and praised for their continues
efforts, in many if not most cases for *free*.

You don't choose Linux, as I think you implied, for the whiz-bang
multimedia support, though it is fairly good for that too, you choose it
because it is an alternative to the insecurity, instability, and
wickedly bloodthirsty licensing and upgrade paths of MS OS's.

Am I getting this right Tom? Tom? Wake up Tom!

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Pete Stean
Selected the 1024x768 generic flatpanel - and I have a DVI and analog in 
on the monitor and DVI and analog out on the card. I only have the DVI 
cable connected (why bother with analog) - could it be as simple as 
trying to install with the analog cable connected instead??   :-|   this 
will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate MS 
but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild 
unknown of  linux  phew!

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:31 am, Pete Stean wrote:
 

Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well...

Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart
from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later)
including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test
button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour
depth just gives me a black screen
I continued with the installation anyway and after another hour or so it
booted fine - hit the return key to run linux and it does all the xx
[OK] lines until it gets to "xinextd." at which point I get a black
screen. I'm thinking maybe its actually loaded the gui at this point but
I can't see it cos of the above problem
Any ideas folks? BTW plug and play aware OS is SWITCHED OFF in my BIOS
at the moment but Windoze XP explicitly says it should be and I am
running (well hopefully) a dual boot system - plug and play aware os is
important in linux right??
Thanks in advance - please nothing too technical cos I am a complete
noob - please let me know if I can provide further info to help diagnose
this
Cheers

Peter
   

Is your video card dual head?
If so the GUI may be appearing on the 'other' output.
You might also try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see if you get a text based console
( Ctl + Alt +F7 puts you back to the GUI )
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:31 am, Pete Stean wrote:
> Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well...
>
> Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart
> from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later)
> including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test
> button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour
> depth just gives me a black screen
>
> I continued with the installation anyway and after another hour or so it
> booted fine - hit the return key to run linux and it does all the xx
> [OK] lines until it gets to "xinextd." at which point I get a black
> screen. I'm thinking maybe its actually loaded the gui at this point but
> I can't see it cos of the above problem
>
> Any ideas folks? BTW plug and play aware OS is SWITCHED OFF in my BIOS
> at the moment but Windoze XP explicitly says it should be and I am
> running (well hopefully) a dual boot system - plug and play aware os is
> important in linux right??
>
> Thanks in advance - please nothing too technical cos I am a complete
> noob - please let me know if I can provide further info to help diagnose
> this
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter

Is your video card dual head?
If so the GUI may be appearing on the 'other' output.

You might also try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see if you get a text based console
( Ctl + Alt +F7 puts you back to the GUI )

derek


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:05, Pete Stean wrote:
> Thanks for the advice - that doesn't work though unfortunately - none of 
> the geforce drivers give me anything other than a blank screen on test..
> 
> :-(
> 
> Petey

Dot not goot.
Zumptink ist wong.

You should at least see SOMETHING - anything - even wavering lines; have
you tried different monitor settings? Cuz even if it ain't the right
driver, it should TELL you it "can't display the test" or similar...are
you using "generic plug'n'play" monitor settings - or did MDK find the
correct (supposedly correct) monitor?

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:31, Pete Stean wrote:
> Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well...
> 
> Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart 
> from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later) 
> including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test 
> button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour 
> depth just gives me a black screen

Ok - then there's  definitely a prob...can you just choose a GF2 generic
driver during the installation and get IT to at least show a "test"
XWindows desktop? If so, then I'd highly recommend using that until you
can actually get logged in and download the current NVidia driver for
linux...

The new machines I sell all have NVidia cards in 'em - what I do to
bypass the BS during the installation (both with MDK and with RH) is to
choose the generic driver and a generic resolution I can live with
(generally it's 1280x1024 at 24-bit) - then once the system actually
comes up nicely, I then install the proper NVidia driver and tweak the
monitor res for the particular customer...

HTH mate...

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RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-02 Thread Sendak, John
Many thanks. I re-installed and chose the option without 3D acceleration and
everything worked perfectly.

Regards

John


 -Original Message-
From:   QingHua Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   01 April 2003 10:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

 << File: message.footer >> At first I met a similar problem that I couldn't
start X. But when I
reconfigured my vedio card from the option "XFree 4.3 ... with 3 D
acceleration" to just "XFree 4.3" without "3D acceleration", everything was
fine.

HTH,

QingHua






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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 01:02, Anne Wilson wrote:

> Is Xtart installed by default in 9.1?  Iit isn't under 9.0
> Anne

As mean and horrible as it sounds, Xtart (THANKS CIVILME!) is NOT
installed by default, and you have to MANUALLY install it. I know that
this is a horrible, terrible oversight on the part of the MDK
development team, and I know how horrible and terrible it is to install
an RPM, but lo, this is the truth of the matter - it has to be manually
installed. I cried for weeks over this, wrote countless letters to the
President of France and to the Mandrakesoft administration, but I we
left bereft and shattered in finding that it's an extra and not part of
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 8:56 am, Jerry Barton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:09 +0100
> Did you choose to have X start automatically when you boot?  It sounds as
> though you're in runlevel 3. try doing
> su and enter root password
> urpmi Xtart
> exit
> Xtart
>
> then pick your window manager and if your video card is configured
> correctly X should start up
>
Is Xtart installed by default in 9.1?  Iit isn't under 9.0

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:09 +0100 
"Sendak, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I wrote earlier that under Mandrake 9.0 I had a message "Kenel panic : No
> init found" at boot-up.
> Thanks to Stephen Kuhn, dfox and Leonardo Diciolla for your advice, but I
> lacked the confidence and knowledge to follow your suggestions.
> 
> I tried to upgrade to Mandrake 9.1. After a "successful installation" I got
> the message something like "KDE not installed" at boot-up. I thought I had
> selected KDE as the graphical interface. I upgraded again, but got the same
> message.
> 
> I then did an install of Mandrake 9.1. Once again I had a "successful
> installation". However, on boot-up, all I got was a screen with the message
> :-
> Mandrake Linux release 9.1 for i586
> Kenel 2.4.21-0.13mdk on an i686/tty1
> Localhost login:
> 
> I logged in as "John" - the user I had set up - and, as far as I can see
> (being a complete beginner), I seemed to be in a full-screen mode shell.
> However, I cannot see any way to minimize the shell and I can't see any
> evidence of KDE or any other graphical interface. 
> 
> To check that I hadn't overridden any crucial default in the installation, I
> re-installed but got the same result.
> 
> I am now completely stuck for what to do.
> 
> Any suggestions very gratefully received.
> 
> Regards
> 
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Did you choose to have X start automatically when you boot?  It sounds as though 
you're in runlevel 3.
try doing
su and enter root password
urpmi Xtart
exit
Xtart

then pick your window manager and if your video card is configured correctly X should 
start up

HTH 
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RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread Sendak, John
Thanks for your reply. I thought that the installer had recognized the
graphics card, and just accepted what I thought was the detected card -
which happened to be the 3D version. I will need to check on the card
details and perhaps change the details on a further install.

Regards

John

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From: QingHua Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 April 2003 11:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

Sorry, I forgot that. My computer is a Compaq presario 2815 (laptop) and my
graphic card is a ATI mobility Raedon. The installer can detect it
automatically with the right configuration.  The installation is very
fluent. I just simply follow the instructions of the wizard. Then everything
is ok. Can your graphic card be detected by the installer?

HTH,

QingHua




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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread QingHua Wang
Sorry, I forgot that. My computer is a Compaq presario 2815 (laptop) and my
graphic card is a ATI mobility Raedon. The installer can detect it
automatically with the right configuration.  The installation is very
fluent. I just simply follow the instructions of the wizard. Then everything
is ok. Can your graphic card be detected by the installer?

HTH,

QingHua


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread Pratchaya Chatuphian
What your Graphic card .. ? sir

I need more spec. of your computer ...sir

..
Pratchaya
..


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From: "QingHua Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem


> At first I met a similar problem that I couldn't start X. But when I
> reconfigured my vedio card from the option "XFree 4.3 ... with 3 D
> acceleration" to just "XFree 4.3" without "3D acceleration", everything
was
> fine.
>
> HTH,
>
> QingHua
>
>
>
>
>






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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-01 Thread QingHua Wang
At first I met a similar problem that I couldn't start X. But when I
reconfigured my vedio card from the option "XFree 4.3 ... with 3 D
acceleration" to just "XFree 4.3" without "3D acceleration", everything was
fine.

HTH,

QingHua




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