On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:14:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Got it. Thanks, Civ. Mike, you got this? Go ahead and try those
> > ISO's listed on the above FTP site with those dates. Let me know if
> > you still can't get the install to work...
>
> Yep, sure did, and after playing today, I have some good news, and some not so
> good news.
>
> First the good news. I got it installed. The problem wasn't with the
> distribution, but with the HD. I think it's dying a slow torturous death. It
> formats fine, but after that, nothing will install. I tried three different
> distros, and got the same results. So I popped in another drive, and Mandrake
> installed without any problems.
Awesome!
> Now for the rest of the news. xf86config is broke. At least here. When trying
> to change the settings, it dies with a fault when trying to access the graphic
> card DB. I tried it several times, and always got the same result at the same
> place. The I decided to see about Drakconf under X. That locked the system up
> as soon as I selected Xconfig. I mean to the point where I had to hit the reset
> to get out of it. CTRL-ALT-backspace nor anything else helped.
Which version of XFree86 were you using? 3.3.6 or 4.0?
> After that I gave up for today. I'll give you the complete system so that you
> can send it on.
>
> Epox MVP3C Motherboard
> AMD k6-2/400
> 192meg PC100 SDRAM
> Advansys SCSI card
> Matrox G200 AGP graphics card with 8 meg
> LG Studioworks 77s Monitor
> WD 1.6gig HD on IDE1
> Mitsumi 4820 CD-ROM drive on IDE2
> Smart and Friendly 4x SCSI cd-rom burner
> HP 1533a Dat drive on the scsi card.
>
> Using Sax (SuSE) I am able to completely setup Xwindows. All the settings are
> there, and it detects the card.
>
> Perhaps I didn't notice it, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to specify a
> monitor that isn't listed when doing the install. For the monitor I have the
> Horizontal freq is 30-70, and the Vertical is 50-160. I couldn't enter it so
> Xwindows wasn't available.
I'm not sure... I can't recall in the GUI installer, but I know you
could select it in the text installer... does anyone know?
BTW, I'm cc'ing this to the expert mailing list so maybe someone can
help you out with this... I've had no luck getting XFree86 4 to work
at all... it just hangs my system, but the last time I tried it was
on the beta, so I have no idea if it's been fixed or not.
Thanks to anyone who can help us out here. =)
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