Hi Amit,
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As I already know that you are a newbie, and considering that this is your first post
on the list, I wouldn't be too
harsh on you, but section 8.a of posting guidelines clearly state that HTML mails are
not welcome on this list, please
configure your mail client -- Outlook Express 5.0, to compose & send mails in plain
text.
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FYI, RHL 6.0 *does* come with XF86Setup, it also comes with another tool called the
Xconfigurator.... While XF86Config
is definitely an opportunity to learn, it is not necessarily the best way for a
beginner to face the innards of X
setup. The issue of hardware incompatibility is mostly because manufacturers do not
always follow the standards &
refusing to release proprietory data required for writing the drivers, not unless you
sign an NDA first... happily this
is changing fast.
I wonder where is our resident SiS expert when you need him....? Shanker... we need
your fire & brimstone type speech
against the flaws of the SiS series ;D
BTW Amit which CD did you use to install Linux from? The Cheap Magazine's CD??
--Indra
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From: Amit Kumar Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ilug-cal] Linux behaving strangely on 2nd day...
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:06 PM
Hello,
I am a very new Linux user. I have a SiS PCI VGA card (6215C) which probably
Linux doesn't like, or maybe the
card vendors (SiS) don't like Linux. The display has been very lo-resolution,
painstakingly big characters and a big
desktop which does not scroll with the mouse.
OK, so over yesterday I was able to log in the console, boot in 3 mode from
LILO and have been able to run
XF86Config (I don't have XF86Setup : using RH6.0) and tweak with the settings, but the
settings did not yield a result.
Today when I started, after the Logon prompt came up, instead of starting X, the
system is telling me:
According to /var/run/gdm.pid gdm was already running, but seems to have been
murdered mysteriously.
and is not loading X - the message appeared 40-50 times and is reappearing many a
times with no visible reason when I'm
leaving the machine idle for a moment. Yesterday many sources told me to use Generic
VGA as my setting, and when I ran
XF86Config, it gave me a generic option and an unsupported VGA option (which I had
been thinking to be generic and
using) - so I chose generic. And after configuration, when I started X, it won't
start, but dumped a whole lot of
info(?) containing names of sooo many VGA cards in a list (and yes, my card was not
even in this list!) and then
writing lines containing a resolution (eg "800x600") then something,, then saying
something like "needs 110.56 Hz rate
: deleted" numbers are arbitrary...
and this way X is not starting ... what happened to my system overnight? ghost
attack?? or a murderer crept into my
machine and murdered this person called GirDhariMal (gdm)? :-)) I also tried typing
gdm on the prompt, but it gives me:
'gdm: already running'
Do I need to reinstall?
Amit Kumar Sharma
http://swastik.virtualave.net/
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