Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Don W. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake 7.2 install/missing font/XFree86? Until recently, I was the happy master of a dual boot system with Win 98/Mandrake 7.1. I got a new machine so I could be separate from the rest of the family, and it initially came with Win ME installed. I then attempted to install Mandrake 7.1 on a second HD, but I could never get a clean install-packages didn't get installed which were critical to the system, so it wouldn't even run. I suspected that the medium was faulty, as I had gotten these errors earlier on the other machine. So I bought the Mandrake Complete 7.2 boxed set (4 CD), and the install seemed to go fine, no error messages. It even did a good job of setting up the internet connection, which worked. One of the few things that does. When I booted up again, I found that neither KDE nor Gnome will run. Blackbox is OK, which is fine with me, but there are programs from both KDE and Gnome that I need to run. When I try to start any KDE programs, I either get a total crash message, or I get an error message that no acceptable fixed font can be found. The version of Xfree86 is 4.0.1, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. A time or two, when I tried to open something it didn't like, X just crashed, leaving me to a command line console. The only way to restart X is to reboot. I'm wondering why there is/are missing fonts, or if they aren't missing why X can't find them. I'm wondering if things would run better with the previous version of Xfree86. My system is a Celeron 566, 64 mb of ram, one 20 gig HD with Windows and one 15 gig HD for Linux. The MB is a BCM IN810P, with onboard video and sound. I can't figure out from the manual what the video RAM is. Anyway, does anyone have any insight into this problem? I had been pleased with Mandrake up to this point. Thanks! Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
