Re: x wont boot

2003-01-17 Thread Christian Walther
> G4Ti. If it's a november 2002 machine (867MHz or 1GHz, 1280x854 screen, Radeon Mobility 9000), you need a BenH kernel for X to work (http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-2md k.ppc.rpm). See my posts to the list (and Stew's replies) starting on 2002/11/28. -C

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Crazy Johnson wrote: > --- Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it's a newer one you've hit the same issue as > > others. > > Changing to "fbdev" for driver may give you some X. > > 8.2 came out almost a > > year ago, before the newere TiBooks. Even now radeon > >

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Crazy Johnson
--- Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's a newer one you've hit the same issue as > others. > Changing to "fbdev" for driver may give you some X. > 8.2 came out almost a > year ago, before the newere TiBooks. Even now radeon > support is shakey on > x86 also. Should I do install-fbd

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Crazy Johnson wrote: > G4Ti. Did mandrake automatically configure this for > me? I said "install-radeon" to launch the graphicall > install and like others was not able to use the > graphicall installer. Of course "install-text" worked > fine. > If it's a newer one you've

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Crazy Johnson
G4Ti. Did mandrake automatically configure this for me? I said "install-radeon" to launch the graphicall install and like others was not able to use the graphicall installer. Of course "install-text" worked fine. I was looking through the /etc/X11/Xsession config files and I think it has me down

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Crazy Johnson wrote: > OK. I changed things around so I boot into console. I > do a startx WindowMaker, but instad of X starting up > there is this thin bar (almost looks like a progress > bar, like when Windoze starts up) at the bottom of the > screen. I never get past this.

Re: x wont boot

2003-01-16 Thread Crazy Johnson
OK. I changed things around so I boot into console. I do a startx WindowMaker, but instad of X starting up there is this thin bar (almost looks like a progress bar, like when Windoze starts up) at the bottom of the screen. I never get past this. I really dont know how Mandrake does things. This i

x wont boot

2003-01-15 Thread Crazy Johnson
All the text based command line stuff goes by. I am automatically logged in by the system. There is a gray bar at the bottom of the screen. It never goes away. First of all, is there any way to fix this. Second is there a way to boot right to console, then I could do a manual startx. Thanks, Jac