Ok. The video card for this particular box is a 9fx motion 771 made by
number nine technologies. All other Mandrake distributions have installed
nicely on this computer, so maybe Oxygen is missing the correct drivers?
Also, I've installed Oxygen on my home computer which uses a generic HP card
and monitor with an AMD k5 chip. Only problems on install was that it did
not recognize my mouse right off so I had to use the keybord to go through
the installation. This was not a problem until I got to choose the packages
because I could not scroll down to chose any of the last few packages that
were not visible without scrolling down.
Also, I get a Kernel panic right off when I boot and have to use the boot
disk I made during install. LILO also has made it difficult to get back
into my Win98 partition. I had to move Win 98 below the linux section of
lilo.conf before I waqs able to boot into windows. Also, I think LILO has
messed up my BeOS partition because when I choose to boot into that partion,
I get to the Be boot screen but it does not boot up and just freezes. This
never happened before on any of the other distributions. I normally run this
box with Linux, Win98, and Be on the computer with no problems.
Last and hopefully final problem I have run into is, I can't get into my
cdrom or floppy drives when I'm in root. I tried to mount or unmount and I
was refused access to these drives. The file icons for these drives in KDE
show that they have belts around the files, but I thought this was for
restricted access as a user. I get this as root. Am I missing something?
Thanx again, and sorry this is so long.
SA
----- Original Message -----
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker]
>
> Ok it's the video card, now we need to identify it..?
>
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote:
> > This attempt was tried on a DELL. It is an old pentium 133Mhz chip. It
uses
> > 9fx graphics card(I think that is what it is called) and a Sony 200sx
> > monitor. The rest of the computer is the generic DELL hardware that
comes
> > with it. I tried to install Oxygen using a CD iso I downloaded from
tucows
> > and burnt to a blank CD. This is how I usually obtain differrent Linux
> > dists. I also checked the checksum to make sure everything was burnt to
the
> > disk correctly. So I guess it was a cd that I used for the install
media. I
> > just loaded it into the drive and booted the computer. I got the
standard
> > install boot screen that comes with all of the Redhat/Mandrake
distribution
> > so I pressed the enter key to continue with the Install. That's where
all
> > the problems start. I was going to try and install it on my computer at
home
> > which is similar but has a generic packard bell graphics card and
monitor
> > along with an AMD K5 133Mhz chip. They usually work about the same
except
> > the AMD runs faster than the Pentium. (But that seems to happen alot
with
> > these older chips). Anyways, I'll try to get that going this weekend and
see
> > if it works. I'll let you know. If you need anymore info about my
earlier
> > attempt to install let me know.
> > Thanx,
> > SA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 11:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Cooker]
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've encountered my first problem ever installing Mandrake. Granted
> > Oxygen is BETA, but I can't even install it on my machine to test it.
After
> > the install software initialized the CDrom, it went into second stage
> > install. I then received the following error message before it went
down:
> > > > _X11TransSocket UNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > > > _X11TransSocket UNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > > > ThuDec30 13:50:22 1999 Gtk-WARNING**: Cannot open display: : 0 at
> > /usr/bin/
> > > > perl-install/my_gtk.pm
> > > > line 139
> > > > install exited abnormally
> > > > sending termination signals...done
> > > > sending kill signals...done
> > > > unmounting filesystems...
> > > > /tmp/rhimage
> > > > /proc
> > > > you may safely reboot your system
> > > >
> > > > Anyways, that was the error message I received. Anyone know why this
is
> > happenning? I've never had a problem installing any of the other
Mandrake
> > distributions on this box before, so I assumed that Mandrake would have
> > carried over the same video drivers for this distribution. But I can't
even
> > get past this error message to install it.
> > > > Thanx,
> > > > SA
> > >
> > > what install method/media, and pc specs plz?
> > >
> > > > God made the integers;
> > > > all else is the work of Man.
> > > > --Kronecker
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > > --Axalon
> > >
> >
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
>
