On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Clarence Verge wrote:
> My Linux X problems were fixed by installing the SVGA rpm.
> This turned out to be extremely easy.
Glad to hear it. :-)
>I elected to use a slightly
> modified form of the instructions supplied by Steve, so this might
> be of some use to someone.
> In Midnight Commander I went to /mnt/CDROM (which I had automounted
> in fstab) and was lucky enough to have someone around who suggested
> I look under Redhat for RPMS and there they were. I wouldn't have
> guessed that myself.
Er... Step number 3 told you that.
> Trolled down the list and found all the video
> drivers (is that what they are called in Linux ?) and there was
> XF86_SVGA something and there was only one so I felt mistakes were
> unlikely at this point. <G>
>
> Here is the easy bit: Hightlight that RPM
> Hit enter.
> Something happens. (I dunno - this is Linux) <g>
> The display panel changes and now we see some new stuff - the most
> important of which is the word *INSTALL in green.
> So I slide down to that and hit it. (enter) Could it hurt ?
>
> Text screen shows hash marks "#" as Steve said it would and it's done !
>
> I exited MC and typed Xconfigurator and this time it ran correctly and
> I was able to immediately startx. :))
The reasons I didn't walk you through this way are
1) not everyone has mc installed, and
2) if there is an error this way, say you're missing
a dependency, mc doesn't show it to you. You have to
exit mc to see any error messages. If you've had a
long session and had errors pertaining to many different
operations, the ones you're really interested in have
probably already scrolled off the top of the screen.
mc is great for a lot of things, but I don't really
recommend it for installing rpms when 'rpm -ivh' is
so easy.
> Next problem. <G>
> I read the Net3Howto in hopes of getting my box on line.
I see Steven has already given a pretty good answer,
(while I was away down south to NYC) so I'll add any
.02 later on in the "thread."
- Steve
