Re: Frustration with XFree86 and Via K8M800

2005-01-04 Thread Pete
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 17:23 +, Ned wrote: > Hi, > > Are you still looking into this? Anyway the vesa framebuffer driver works ok > (e.g. boot with 'vga=0x31b'), and then you can use the fbdev driver for X. Hi Ned, No, I ended up giving it away as a lost cause and instead I've now got a Rad

Re: Frustration with XFree86 and Via K8M800

2005-01-03 Thread Ned
> Hi all, I'm experiencing major difficulties getting my new > AMD64 PC to load X successfully. > > The PC is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on a Gigabyte > GA-K8VM800M, 2 x 512MB Kingmax PC3200, 80GB Seagate SATA. > > I'm attempting to run XFree86 with the Vesa driver, as > there is no Via driver, and I

Re: Frustration with XFree86 and Via K8M800

2004-12-03 Thread Pete
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:10 -0800, Jacob Bresciani wrote: > according to the video card table on xfree86.org, it should work with > the via driver. > http://www.xfree.org/current/RELNOTES3.html#14 > > course it's easy for me to say that since I don't have one to test that > answer on. > Yep, you'

Re: Frustration with XFree86 and Via K8M800

2004-12-03 Thread Pete
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 08:54 -0800, Jacob Bresciani wrote: > if you have mail setup on that machine try this > > cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | mail -s "" > Thanks Jacob, but no, I hadn't bothered setting email up at that stage, so would've gone nowhere anyway :-) I've actually wiped the PC and p

Frustration with XFree86 and Via K8M800

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Cole
Hi all, I'm experiencing major difficulties getting my new AMD64 PC to load X successfully. I've done a fresh install tonight and have basically just loaded xserver-xfree86, xdm, and blackbox to try (yet again) to get it working. When xdm starts up, it flashes crap on the very top line several ti