Hi all, Thanks Lenz for your help I am describing what I did because I did not succeded with this new aic7xxx update ! I was able to copy the aic7xxx to the floppy. I have also boted the system with this new floppy and when prompted I choosed install and then boot on my root partition which is /dev/sda8 every thing went well untill the time to start the xserver. This keep looping I gess without giving me the kde display I asked for. Here is the X:0msgs file : ______________________________________________ XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) (--) Mach64: PCI (92) and CONFIG_CHIP_ID (124) don't agree on ChipRev, using PCI value (--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz (--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor (**) Adding extended device "SWITCH" (type: Switch) mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667 XDM: too many retransmissions XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) (--) Mach64: PCI (92) and CONFIG_CHIP_ID (124) don't agree on ChipRev, using PCI value (--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz (--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor (**) Adding extended device "SWITCH" (type: Switch) mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667 XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) (--) Mach64: PCI (92) and CONFIG_CHIP_ID (124) don't agree on ChipRev, using PCI value (--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz (--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor (**) Adding extended device "SWITCH" (type: Switch) mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667 XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) (--) Mach64: PCI (92) and CONFIG_CHIP_ID (124) don't agree on ChipRev, using PCI value (--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz (--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor (**) Adding extended device "SWITCH" (type: Switch) mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667 ____________________________________ So the problem if I am not missing some thing on how to install the new aic7xxx is with the xserver and may other thing related to maybe related to I have no knolwedge at all on X mecanics (xserver, xterm, consols,....ncurses files) Note : that I noticed that I have problems in configuring the Kernel using Menuconfig or Xconfig but this is another problem Could some one help me just understand some thing in this problems ? Thank you very much, Naceur - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
