On Friday 05 Sep 2003 9:50 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hi Anne, > > you mean - you have to run XFdrake in text mode ? or does it start > in graphic mode ? > It was in text mode, which I expected. I have done it that way before, but this time I couldn't edit anything at all.
> Anyway - make sure there is no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Just > remove the old one - so the system will use the safe defaults - > should do it. > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 doesn't exist at all. I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to the lines that mine uses for the lcd monitor. The display card settings seem to know what it is, and I dropped the default from 24-bit to 16-bit, but it still didn't work. The display still gets to the blue wave, then dropps to shimmering white, retries a couple of times, then drops to text mode. I have edited lilo.conf so that it starts up from the old 9.0, which at least lets me in for now, but it brings up a lot of errors at boot up, which I'll have to sort out later. If I mount /dev/hdc7 as /mnt/temp can I reasonably copy the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from the 9.0 setup into the /mnt/temp setup? It will have to be this afternoon, as I have to go out this morning. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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