Well, I finally came around to acquiring the source and loved the new look
to 'make xconfig.' Anyhow, After I've run the config, I run a make dep
[and a make clean] and usually do make boot. But this time it said the
system was too big, so I used make bzImage. then I make modules and finish
with make modules_install. Pretty standard. Then I copy the zImage and
System.map filex to /boot, make a new initrd image, edit /etc/lilo.conf,
run lilo, and reboot. So far so good. But then when it tries to boot, it
says loading image... (or whatever the very first line is) and the second
line is:
No setup signature found... <system halts here!>
No idea what is going on. I tried recompiling, same result.
Also, modules are no longer being loaded by themselves. The only one that
is loaded by itself is aic7xxx, and it tries to load it twice during
bootup! Not only is that wierd by itself but there is nothing between the
two tries, it finishes seting up the driver for the detected card, then
tries to load the driver!
I have one more issue.
I recently upgraded to a dual PII motherboard (Tyan S1696DLUA Thnder 2)
with a single PII 333 and 64 MB of RAM. I have an A-Trend 4MB AGP S3-ViRGE
GX/2 video card in it. Either the card, or the S3V server....sux. I think
that when it started crashing frequently, was due to different versions of
software (didn't notice the .1 on the rpm's). So I upgrade that, so now
all my XFree86 rpm's are 3.3.3.1. Noticeable improvement. But I'm still
seeing the server crash for no good reason (changed the font size in an
xterm, ran top). After I upgraded all the X rpms I ran XF86Setup and said
to start from scratch to configure everything over again, and this has,
for the most part, fixed the problems. But until I did this, I was only
able to run X in 8bpp and almost anything (save moving the mouse, most of
the time) would make it crash. I guess to get to the point, does anyone
know is the S3V server is worth anything. I seem to see better
performance, faster and nicer looking, using the SVGA server.
Thanks in advance for any input on any issue.
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