On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:19:59PM +0000, Nicholas Helps wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks for the comments on this. What solved it was redoing the "make system > bootable" bit again (this sorted out > the boot-device setting) and then just entering "Linux" at the boot: prompt. > I did have to go back and start the > whole install process again prior to this, since the installer got confused > otherwise and asked for log-in > password that had not yet been set... > > After all this, I get to the point where I can boot back into linux and it > starts off the HD. However, one other > little problem is that X will not start. It chucks up some errors about not > being able to start the server, then > bombs out and goes to consol mode. Maybe I have not set all the properties > right during the installation process. > I am thinking it might be screen res or colour depth (I also mucked up the > mouse setting and used a PS2 mouse not > the setting that is listed in the installer... whoops!). > > Anyone got some ideas as to how to alter this (? x.conf file) and what the > sort of settings might be? I have what > came with the starmax in terms of display hardware (1MB of video ram, the > standard built-in display adaptor) and a > 15" apple multiscan monitor. The mouse is the standard ADB mouse supplied > with the system.
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Be sure you enter a Bus ID (you can figure out what it should be using lspci). -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
