[newbie] Video Problems - Mandrake 8.0 on Dell Latitude C800 Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Michael F. Aube
Hello, I am trying to get Mandrake 8.0 up and running on a brand new Dell Lattitude C800 Laptop, but I am seeing some really nasty video behavior. It acts like it doesn't want to use the right-most 1/3 of the screen. The video card is an ATI M4, with 32 MB RAM. Has anyone else seen this type

[newbie] Video Problems

2000-01-13 Thread Warren Rowe
I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 and I can't seem to X to run properly. I am using am IBM PC300GL (Model 6272) this uses an integrated Cirrus Logic 5446 Video Controller with 2Mb Mem. I am using an IBM G54 monitor (but I don't believe this is the problem). When I Start X it loads OK but the

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote: John, I just went through the RH 5.2 book and haven't yet found any command that will format the HD for Linux. Who out there can point me in the correct direction command wise? It should do that on install. However, the command is mke2fs /dev/hdxx where xx

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-22 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bill Crouch wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get a message that the /root wasn't

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get a message that the /root wasn't mounted or "bad option" and the file is still a read only. Now I am

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-21 Thread Bill Crouch
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get a message that the /root wasn't mounted or "bad option" and the file is still a

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-19 Thread Steve Philp
Bill Crouch wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Bill Crouch wrote: Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT:

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-19 Thread Donald Tingle
Bill Crouch wrote: Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT: Entering run level 5 INIT: can't execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I have the same problem, everything was working fine until I upgraded to a new Epox m/b with a AMD K6-2 450 cpu. Those were the only changes I made and I get the same errors. Reinstalled RH 5.2 and it runs fine, I think the error is caused bu Xwindows. I'm so

[newbie] video problems?

1999-09-18 Thread Bill Crouch
Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT: Entering run level 5 INIT: can't execute "/etc/rc.d/rc" INIT: Id "1" respawning

Re: [newbie] video problems?

1999-09-18 Thread Steve Philp
Bill Crouch wrote: Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT: Entering run level 5 INIT: can't execute

Re: [newbie] Video problems

1999-08-27 Thread Neil P.
, and then it crashes, with that error message. neil - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video problems On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, JK wrote: I am running a number nine I128 with four

[newbie] Video problems

1999-08-26 Thread JK
I am running a number nine I128 with four megs of ram. my monitors hsync is 30-95 and vsync is 47-150 res is 1600x1200 max When I was running RH 6.0 it could handle 1280x1024 at 24 bpp now I am trying to set my monitor to the same res and depth, but it will only hit max of 1280x1024 at 8 bpp