Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-15 Thread andre
On Sunday 15 April 2001 08:14, you wrote: andre, Thanks for the response! andre wrote: You know that you are talking about an SiS video card with framebuffer. Inserting an older card may actually improve gaming. Matsonic 8308 (isn't that a shell for pcchips) has a SiS 730 chip not

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-15 Thread Randy Kramer
andre, Thanks very much for the followup reply! :-) andre wrote: I'm happy to hear that the SiS video has actually any umpfe. Sorry, what is "umpfe"? The integrate everything in a chip chipset is called a 730 but it can be that the video in it is the same as a 630. That makes sense!

[Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Sorry if you recognize this as a repeat -- I am apparently not conveying this message very clearly -- AFAICT, no one on the cooker list has taken notice of this message. There is a problem with the installation of beta 3 of Mandrake 8.0. The same problem exists in the installation of Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-14 Thread Elton Woo
Randy Kramer wrote: The big problem is that, whichever choice I make, I then get the following error message, and the installation hangs: "Can't call method "set_active" on an undefined value" PS: The system includes a Matsonic 8308 motherboard with on board video, sound, and ethernet.

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Elton, Thanks for the response! No I haven't tried disabling the on-board video -- I'm sure it would work but my son would not be happy using an older video card for his Windows games. I'd really like one of the developers to recognize the problem -- it should not be hard to fix and it

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 8.0 (and 7.2) installation hangs at Xserver installation, will not complete

2001-04-14 Thread andre
On Saturday 14 April 2001 17:14, you wrote: Elton, Thanks for the response! No I haven't tried disabling the on-board video -- I'm sure it would work but my son would not be happy using an older video card for his Windows games. I'd really like one of the developers to recognize the