[newbie] Video card problem

1999-04-26 Thread M & C Z.
I have an S3 Trio3D (86C365 chipset) video card (seems like the only S3 card that isn't supported by X, just my luck). I have tried different drivers for it and can't get it to work. I am wondering if anyone out there has the same card and/or knows of any way to make it work with X. I know that th

[newbie] new problem

1999-04-20 Thread M & C Z.
I got everything installed (at least I think I did). Now I find out my video card (S3 86C365 4MB AGP) is not supported by XFree86. Does anyone know of anything I can do? I can't afford to buy Accelerated-X which does support my card. Thanks in advance, Mike

[newbie] thanks

1999-04-19 Thread M & C Z.
Thanks for the advice. I used fdisk and it worked just fine (except that I ran out of space during the installation, too much junk on DOS/Win side). I like Disk Druid's interface but for some reason it doesn't work for setting up the partitions.

[newbie] install problem

1999-04-18 Thread M & C Z.
after partitioning my drive (Maxtor 6.4 Gig) to install Mandrake it tells me I have no swap space defined, that's the first partition I added (64MB = RAM) along w/ root '/' (100MB), and /usr (700MB). if I choose to continue anyway it gets all the way to formatting the partitions and says something