On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > I had a machine running 6.0 (Venus) successfully. After several moderate
> > successes upgrading to 7.0 I tried this one.
> >
> > 1. The install procedure wrapped around itself in DiskDrake. I tried to do an
> > upgrade and kept being told that /usr had 86 Mb too little. I then started
> > again booting from CD and expanded the /usr partition since / was big enough
> > tpo contain the /var partition following /usr. I deleted /var and resized /usr
> > to contain the old /usr and /var, resigning myself to an install, but having
> > most of what I wanted to keep in /home and /usr/local partitions anyway
> >
> > Now, after Diskdrake wrote to disk... A problem appeared. Itr said the
> > partitions were overlapping. I looked and backed up and tried again... Same
> > result--overlapping partitions. I rebooted and smacked into a wall trying to
> > install because the partition table was corrupt. I booted a floppy and checked
> > with fdisk, and they WERE. It wasn't a false read, it had been a bad write.
> >
> > Well I wanted to see if the program would fix it, so I deleted those
> > partitions, and the offending overlapping ones, and repartitioned using
> > DiskDrake. That worked, and the install proceeded.
> >
> > We got to video.... Oooops. Nothing would work. THis was working fine under
> > XFree86-3.3.4.... A trident 3DImage975 AGP card with 4Mb. Finally, I selected
> > "Quit" after trying everything from 1154 at 32bpp to 640 at 8bpp, and I told it
> > to remember the 640x480 at 8bpp. I stupidly allowed it to set runlevel 5, but
> > remembered in time to type "linux 3" at boot. After adding
> >
> > Option "noaccel"
> >
> > to /etc/X11/XF86Config with vi, I tried startx and had a screen.
<SNIP>
> > I do note that the latest version of XF86Setup does allow the inclusion of
> > lines in the XF86Config file from the setup routine. I like it, but it did no
> > better than Xconfigurator.
> >
> > Civileme
>
> I have exactly the same card and an LG Studioworks 56i monitor. I am
> running LM 7.0. I used mc to edit XF86Config and use 1024x768 at 76Hz
> and 16 bit colour. The "no accel" option is necessary. Works fine.
> HTH.
> --
> Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA
> Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Many thanks! I went ahead and stripped out all but 1024x768 at 60Hz, set
default color depth to 32, set all modes to 1024x768 in the screen sections,
disposed of vga16 and vga2, and voila` !
Were it not for folk like you, I would constantly forget that the SVGA server
can be confused by trying too many modes. As we agree
Option "noaccel"
is necessary.
Civileme
