Re: [newbie] X configuration
I'm new and need to know how to approach things. What did you do, look at, experiment with, etc. I'm also behind, so pardon me if this has been asked already. -Gary- In a message dated 8/2/2000 7:41:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you have to keep working with it until you find one that will work with his hardware. Sometimes it can be a real challenge to get the display working correctly with Linux. Especially Mandrake. This week I configured LM 7.1 on one of our users' laptop at work. I spent the better part of one day off and on trying to get the display to fill the screen and behave itself while doing that. It took a while, and with patience I was able to succeed. a word of encouragement...you won't always be able to get the display working with the choices that are most obvious for the hardware. You may find your hardware on the list, but that's not a guarentee that it's going to work with those drivers. Just don't give up. Sometimes you end up using drivers that you wouldn't think will work. I'm using an HP driver to get my Canon BJC6000 to work in Linux Mandrake 7.1. And they said it couldn't be done! -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
Re: [newbie] X configuration
DO NOT do the test in the install. answer with a resolution that you KNOW will work e.g. 800x60016bpp and then do NOT boot automatically into X. When you boot up, type startx and then in the configuration you can change and test to your heart's content, and then set up to boot into X if you want to cilia wrote: Kdm, I wish I could help but alas I am trying to install 6.5 and have the same problem with the monitor. I have some idea to change the XF86Config file but where Would certainly appreciate any help from your research. By the way I am trying to install on a totally dedicated box for Linux.that is no other OS on board except Linux. Thanks Anthony kdm wrote: I am helping a friend install Mandrake 7.0, everything goes fine until he gets to X configuration, he inputs all his video info, but when the install tests the configuration, instead of the screen asking "Can you read this" he gets a screen with a background and an X curser that he cannot control??? The screen goes blank and no more installation... Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks -KDM __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] X configuration
you have to keep working with it until you find one that will work with his hardware. Sometimes it can be a real challenge to get the display working correctly with Linux. Especially Mandrake. This week I configured LM 7.1 on one of our users' laptop at work. I spent the better part of one day off and on trying to get the display to fill the screen and behave itself while doing that. It took a while, and with patience I was able to succeed. a word of encouragement...you won't always be able to get the display working with the choices that are most obvious for the hardware. You may find your hardware on the list, but that's not a guarentee that it's going to work with those drivers. Just don't give up. Sometimes you end up using drivers that you wouldn't think will work. I'm using an HP driver to get my Canon BJC6000 to work in Linux Mandrake 7.1. And they said it couldn't be done! -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, kdm wrote: I am helping a friend install Mandrake 7.0, everything goes fine until he gets to X configuration, he inputs all his video info, but when the install tests the configuration, instead of the screen asking "Can you read this" he gets a screen with a background and an X curser that he cannot control??? The screen goes blank and no more installation... Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks -KDM
