i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the radeon out with.
as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues. i have been thinking of buying an 8500 but was holding off until i figured it would work without too many heachaches, anyways, i just recently ran across mention that the latest Xfree now supports those cards. i will try to find that link or remember how i got there so that i can supply more details and help out. it also seems to me that the i840 based boards were a no-show on 8.0, but i could be wrong about this. probably civileme would know right away. moose. On April 23, 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: > > Nick Baker wrote: > > > I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to > > > completion on a dual processor Intel > > > OR840 motherboard-based machine. > > > If you think you can help I can send the details. > > > > Let's here more details, esp. where during the install it has problems. > > > > I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I > > have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch > > just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and > > jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-(> > > I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I > > have found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch > > just to get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and > > jumpers didn't work the way the manual said. ;-( > > As a bit of a side note ... The only times I have had installs hang > > during the installation was due to bad hardware, especially RAM.... > > > > Just a thought. > > Thanks for your help, Kevin. > Here's the congfiguration: > Intel OR840, dual p!!! 800, > 1 gig Intel approved ram, > IBM (adaptec 7881U) scsi adapter, > 50 gig Seagate U2W drive, > Sony CRX140E 8/4/32 CDRW, > ATI Radeon 7500 AGP video, > on-board NIC, > on-board audio, > external KVM sw to share video, mouse, keyboard with my IBM server. > > I want to set this machine up as a graphics workstation, and attempt to > wean myself from 14 years of Photoshop/Mac addiction and and move my work > to GIMP/Linux. I am also trying to develop an inexpensive office network > and machine configuration package for non-profits. (Ironically, the cheap > hardware has been less trouble !) > > Witht the OR840, have been through several sets of non-Intel-approved > memory and also had originally tried to set this up with dual p!!! 933s > using slockets, never could get that set up to even get to the bios >:-( > Finally broke down and got all Intel approved parts, and now it configures > the SCSI card and the Intel bios just fine. > > OK. With the "approved" config, I have tried to install both 8.0 and 8.2, > but they both do the same thing. The install runs smoothly through the > partioning (root, home, usr, var) to the package instal. Near the end of > installing whatever packages I have chosen, the install hangs either with a > frozen mouse/keyboard or a blank screen. > > Progress!! this morning I was able to install the "truely minimal" option > and can get to the command prompt. > I then tried to upgrade installing KDE, but it hung as usual in the > upgrade. When I restarted, there were a bunch of repairs requested, which I > approved. I was then able to boot the minimal system again. > > My current thought is that this is a video/X problem, and have been > rummaging about the ATI and Xfree sites for help, but have not found any > joy there yet. > > I also suspect that the minimal system is utilizing only one of the > processors. > > Later;;; > Now that I have the minimal system running I've been trying to get > additional pieces installed. The installer thinks Xfree is installed, but > if I try to startx from the console I get: > > execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) > giving up . > xinit: No such file or directory. (errno 2): Unable to connect to X > server. xinit: No such process. (errno 3): Server error. > then it dumps me back into the shell. > > If I run the installer now, with no packages selected for install, it hangs > while the "preparing bootloader" message is on the screen. > > This is long enough for now... > > TIA for info and advice, > Nick ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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