Anne Wilson wrote:

On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote:


On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote:


I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out.  It has
booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the
display up.

I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root, the menu
comes up, but I can't find any way to change any part of the
configuration. I have to set it to a generic lcd screen.

I have to get this fixed before he gets home, or I'll be divorced
<g> What do I do now?

Anne


If you are installing 9.1 with an LCD monitor, the appropriate
driver for the video card may not be present. For instance, I have
an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download
Nvidia's driver before I could get KDE to load onscreen.



Hi, Steve. No, it's not the video card. That's an old SiS card that was working under 9.0. Of course, it may be that 9.1 can't handle that card. If that's so, I'll have to work out how to vi lilo.conf to get back to the old 9.0 install

Anne


Does it work with Knoppix? Maybe you could boot up with Knoppix and copy the resutling XF86Config-4 file to your new install.


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