[Newbie]char-major-226 module

2002-11-23 Thread Jonathan Drews
Distro: SuSE 8.1 Video Card: ATI Radeon 7000 X: XFree86-4.2.0 Acceleration enabled Hello: I get the following message: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-226 >From google searches I suspect that this is related to my video card. Is this indeed a module I need for my video card

Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:30 pm, Hans Borg wrote: > Hi all, > > Have followed this forum for a time. > > No doubt that video-cards and associated monitors present problems > in any X-server used (XFree86, XFreeBSD .). > > My impression, though, is that a lot of people using RedHat are > r

Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Saturday 30 November 2002 06:47 pm, Hans Borg wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > modeprobe. > == > No, this not strictly related to X in any way. It is supposed to find > out what "modules" to be inserted into the kernel. It is normaly > defined in /lib/modules/... depending on the installation. >

Re: [Newbie]startx crash

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:52 am, J H wrote: > I am running SuSE 8.1, and I am trying to get Xwindows 4.2.0 to work. > I have an S3 Savage4 on-board video card. When I put in 'startx' in > returns this: > > Hi: Did you try running SuSE's SaX2 X cofiguration tool? BTW Is this a Microtel

Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed

2002-12-01 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Sunday 01 December 2002 09:08 am, Mark R. Muto wrote: > I did manage to get to XFree86.org and downloaded two files, > Xinstall.sh and Xinstall.bin (the latest version 4.0.3 I think). > However, when I tried to execute the .bin file, it said that I needed > to extract it using extract.exe, but I

Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed

2002-12-01 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:08 am, Jonathan Drews wrote: > The lateset Xfree86 version is 4.2.1. 4.0.3 is old. Your RedHat > XFree86 is just fine the Video card Gee, sorry about the typos; I was in a hurry. ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PRO

[Newbie]Interpreting warnings in XFree86.0.log

2002-12-09 Thread Jonathan Drews
Hi: Can anyone tell me what this warning means? (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs. What are the MTRR's ? Thanks Jonathan ___ Newbie mail

Re: [Newbie] RedHat 8 display problem with Intel 845GL

2003-01-04 Thread Jonathan Drews
This list is now defunct. Please subscribe to XFree86.On Sunday 29 December 2002 11:33 pm, Kumaran Ramachandran wrote: > This list is now defunct. Please subscribe to XFree86.Hi All, > > I installed Redhat 8 in a new Intel 845 GL machine. It seems the > display driver is not working correctly as