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From: Chakrabarti, Suvendra (CTS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: cal-Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:33 AM
Subject: [ilug-cal] Problems with Installation
> Hi,
>
> I have disposed of my old m/c, and got a new one. I tried to install
> slackware,
> since last time I had installed slackware, it went like a breeze. (Even
the
> RedHat-5.2, which I installed later, didn't give me problems !!). But
this
> time
> all is not well :-(
>
> Here are some of the problems I am facing:
>
> 1. My video chipset is Trident 9420 (if I recall that correctly), with 4MB
> video
> ram. slackware is using the driver for Trident 9000, and can only detect
1MB
> ram on the card - Explicitly changing it in XF86Config did not work.
Just because the company name is the same does not mean that the cards are
similar. If i remember right , the Trident 9000 was a VESA VGA card , abou 6
yrs old and came with a max of 2 MB RAM (correct me anybody if i am wrong,
my memory might be failing me!) and your current card is an accelerated AGP
. The similarity between the chipsets is akin to chalk and cheese.
Start using Xfree86 3.3.5 . You might be having an old version of X.
> (SuperProbe is detecting 2MB Ram, but the ram is in
> reality 4MB).
SuperProbe is dated now and does not always detect chipsets correctly. It
used to detect my old card , a Cirrus Logic Set as a Video 7 Card.
>
> 2. The mouse is Genius three button. Microsoft or MouseMan Protocol (opts.
> 1 and 2 respectively), are unable to detect the mouse.
>
do a cat /proc/dma and cat /proc/interrupts and check for conflicts.
Even GPM may be conflicting , so you may have to remove the line from your
init script. Check that your devices have been made correctly in the /dev/
directory. Try running the script for making device definations ( it is in
that directory).
> 3. I have installed LILO in MBR, with two bootable partitions mentioned as
> dos
> and linux. The delay is given as 50 (5 seconds). Though LILO is waiting
for
> the
> input for 5 seconds, it is not really taking any input, and after 5
seconds
> is
> booting to the first default partition - if dos is default, it is booting
> Win-98, and
> if linux is made default it is booting Linux.
> 4. (non-Linux) fdisk /mbr is not able to restore the MBR. The m/c is just
> hanging,
> means even keyboard is not responding.
Could you give some info on what messages are being thrown on screen -LI
etc?
> Any help will be appreciated.
You are welcome
;-)
shanker
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