On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote: > > >>On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: > > >>>I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has > > >>>booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the > > >>>display up. > > >>> > > >>>I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root, the menu > > >>>comes up, but I can't find any way to change any part of the > > >>>configuration. I have to set it to a generic lcd screen. > > >>> > > >>>I have to get this fixed before he gets home, or I'll be > > >>> divorced <g> What do I do now? > > >>> > > >>>Anne > > >> > > >>If you are installing 9.1 with an LCD monitor, the appropriate > > >>driver for the video card may not be present. For instance, I > > >> have an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download > > >> Nvidia's driver before I could get KDE to load onscreen. > > > > > >Hi, Steve. No, it's not the video card. That's an old SiS card > > > that was working under 9.0. Of course, it may be that 9.1 can't > > > handle that card. If that's so, I'll have to work out how to vi > > > lilo.conf to get back to the old 9.0 install > > > > > >Anne > > > > Does it work with Knoppix? Maybe you could boot up with Knoppix > > and copy the resutling XF86Config-4 file to your new install. > > I have to go out this morning, but I'll try that when I get back, > thanks. > Anne, if this is an older card, it might not support the render extension, in which case you have been bitten by the libqt bug in the version of qt that shipped with 9.1. This was subsequently fixed with an update, so if you have not added any updates yet, try updating libqt first. -- /g
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