Hello
Well, you don't mention exactly when the installation hangs.... but I had a
similar problem with a Dell Inspiron 3000 w/ Pentium MMX 233. My
installation hung when it tried to start PCMCIA services... I needed it
since I didn't have CD-ROM and my company had the distribution (RH5.1) on
our local network. By the way, I did get the newest boot.img and supp.img...
which claim to solve this problem (or a similar problem)... but it still
didn't work.
Well, last week I cried out to this mailing list and there was one
suggestion that I tried. (thanks to whoever that was)... And that was to
install some other more laptop friendly OS like Windows 95, load the
distribution onto disk, and then install off the hard drive. This ultimately
worked. In case you decide to try this, becareful of 2 things. One, the
installation boot kernel doesn't know about FAT32. So make sure you install
windows 95 on a FAT16.. or otherwise you'll have to make your own boot disk
and recompile the kernel... assuming you have another linux machine. Second,
since my PCMCIA was causing the hang, be sure to say NO when the
installation asks if it should start it.
After the installation was complete, I still had problems with my PCMCIA.
The controller on my Inspiron is the TI PCI-1131. I ultimately found out
that it was a IRQ probing problem. When PCMCIA services are started,
according to the How-To/FAQ, it probes for available IRQs... this would
always cause a frozen system. First I tried the do_probe=no option, but that
didn't work. Then I started restricting the irq list with the
irq_list="3,9,10,11" option. At first this didn't work until I changed it to
irq_list="9,11". Apparently, there is a problem with irq 3 and 10 which are
suppose to be available. irq 3 is usually used for a 2nd serial port (COM2)
which doesn't exist. And irq 10 is used by the (utterly useless) USB
controller. So, I don't know what's up with that, but that's how i got
around my problems. I suppose you could modify the boot/supp disks to do
this so that it won't hang during installation. Though that's assuming the
similar symptoms were caused by the same problem.
As for X... I installed XBF-neomagic-glibc-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm which I
downloaded from Redhat. What Daniel mentions below is right, the
installation doesn't change the link from X to XBF... so I too had to do
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XBF_NeoMagic /etc/X11/X
and for my XF86Config.. yes I had to copy the NeoMagic version over to the
default. The relevant sections are listed here.....
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LCD"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30-64
VertRefresh 50-100
Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605
628 +hsync +vsync
Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
EndSection
# I don't know if the above is absolutely correct, but it worked for me and
I'm running at # 1024x768 at 16bit color depth.
Section "Device"
Identifer "NeoMagic"
Chipset "NM2160"
EndSection
# According to what I've read in the How-To and FAQs ... the new 1.1 XBF can
auto detect
# all the settings, so you don't need to put things like VideoRam, MemBase,
etc...
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "NeoMagic"
Monitor "LCD"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
# there were other settings for lower resolutions and different color
depths, but I didn't # care for them....
Okay,.. sorry for the huge message, but I thought it would be useful to
others having the problems i had.... as i couldn't find anything like this
last week. Hopefully, this will all get archived somewhere and people can
search and find it when they need it.
Good Luck!
-----Original Message-----
From: John Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 30, 1998 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: help with X needed
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: John Johnson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 1998 1:32:45 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: help with X needed
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>Daniel,
>
>Perhaps you can offer me some tips. I too have a Dell Inspiron D266XT, and
>I've been trying to no avail to get RedHat Linux 5.1 loaded. My
installation
>hangs towards the beginning of the installation. Can you reproduce the
steps
>you took to install, if it's not too much trouble? I've run out of things
to
>try.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Huber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 30, 1998 1:14 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: help with X needed
>
>hello
>
> yesterday i did install linux, redhat linux 5.1, for the very first
>time on my computer - a Inspiron 3200 D266XT. as a very, very beginner i
>was soon confrontated with some problems. the x window system.
>
>after installation ...
>
>(1) i did install the rpm package for the XBF_NeoMagic server
> using $ rpm -vh XBF-neomagic-glibc-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
>
>(2) then i (root) created
> ln -sf ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XBF_NeoMagic /etc/X11/X
>
>(3) cp'ed the /etc/X11/XF86Config.neomagic to /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
>(4) and deleted the "Subsection Display" through "EndSubsection" in
> XF86Config for all the displays I didnt want to use (tip Ryan
> Faussett)
>
>(5) starting $ startx still brings up X in 320x200 (something like
> that)
>
>
>please can anybody give me some advise how to set it up properly. i know
>i don'd contribute to the mailinglist at all by asking this 'common
>sense' questions, but i am a very very beginner who really needs a lot
>of help.
>
>thanks
>
>Daniel
>
>
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