Hardware
Motherboard = Tyan 1832DL
Processor's = 2xPIII 450
Ram = 256MB
Video = Voodoo Banshee
Network = Realtek 8139 10/100
Installed from HD after mirroring last night. Last cooker installation was
about 6 weeks ago. Choose Expert install. No real problems with
installation process, however, two nits. I was unable to type anything in
for mount points when setting this up, but had to select from the list.
I've got 7 different systems and multiple drives/partitions in this box, not
being able to name them what I want wasn't very nice. Also, there is now a
prompt about the servers you have selected to install, asking if you are
sure. I missed one that I didn't want installed, so I answered no, thinking
I would get returned to the selection widget so that I could update the
list. Answering no took me straight into the installation, and presumably
removed them from the list of packages being installed.
Made a boot disk so as not to risk messing up the rest of the machines OS
installations. Previous cooker installations did not recognize other OS's
and wiped out the existing bootloader.
Tested X at the end of setup, all looked good.
After rebooting from the floppy, X is messed up in a manner that is hard to
describe. Even the login screen is illegible, only parts of it are visible,
and most of it is skewed. It's like the worst repaint problem you've ever
seen.
After signing in to a TTY and starting another X session, KDE came up with
the same problems. 90% of the screen items are not drawn at all, and what is
drawn is skewed. When trying to run any apps, they appear to lock, or just
are never drawn.
Tried playing with different X configurations, nothing seemed to work.
Frustrated. Installed again, choosing recommended install. Choose X without
hardware acceleration this time. No prompt for bootdisk, I'm worried...
Upon reboot, LILO doesn't come up, I get 'LI ' and nothing. Boot from
previous boot disk. X still hosed, same as before.
The bootloader problem I've had with almost every distribution, so I'm not
overly concerned with that, but the X problem is new. The system works fine
with 7.2, and was working fine with the previous installation of cooker.
Ideas?
