On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Curtis Kline wrote:
> Update:
>
> The reason I went with a network install was that the CDROM in this iMac
> was fried. Since I couldn't get it to boot, I gave up on that iMac and
> selected another one with the same specs (we have them coming out our
> ears). This one has a working CDROM, so I was able to do something I
> didn't do before: Initialize the hard drive by booting off a MacOS CD.
> Maybe that was my problem...
>
> So this time I did a CD install, and it went flawlessly. After all was
> installed, it rebooted just fine. I logged in as an unprivileged user
> and typed "startx". The Mandrake first timer stuff came up, and I went
> through that. Now I have a new showstopper of a problem: While in KDE,
> the screen blanks out for about a second every 10 seconds or so. I
> cannot even imagine what could cause this! Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
A couple of workarounds, one or the other should work:
1) Add
Option "composite_sync" "off"
To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Above:
BusID "PCI:0:17:0"
Would be a good place. (17 is my machine - yours may vary)
2) Disable X's i2c driver
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a.bad
> Remember, this iMac worked fine in MacOS, and works fine in Mandrake as
> long as X isn't running.
>
Sure it works in MacOS, Apple owns the hardware and OS :)
Stew Benedict
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