Eric Fernandez wrote: > In some particular cases, the XFree screen test made after installing > packages of Mandrake may hang, either by user error or some configs. > This is very frustrating for newbies to have to reinstall the entire > system just because they should have answered "no" to the X test.
There is no need to reinstall, X config is after boot loader installation, so the machine will boot up fine. > So is that possible to do either : > - the X test before installing the system > - a rescue mode in case of freeze at that test ? IMHO, X should fall back to vesa if it fails, and in failsafe, if X fails, it should start X up in vesa and launch XFdrake. This would not have helped the Radeon users on 9.0 who got a hang on X startup though ... Then of course, if Mandrake has real workarounds like this, then maybe they will also want to make a way for users without a working mouse be able to setup a working mouse ... As I have said before, this has been easy on windows since Windows95. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
