On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Sharad Lele wrote:
>We are a small social science research institute in Bangalore, with
>nobody really familiar with Unix, let alone linux. But we thought we
>would use Linux for our mail server, because our ISP is NIC-NET, which
>supports Unix uucp, not Windows NT.
>
>Hardware: Pentium II 400 MHz, 64MB RAM, 2GB Linux boot partition on HDD
> Sis6326 AGP card with 4MB RAM
> D-Link DFE-530 TX Fast ethernet card
> External modem on COM2
> Serial Mouse on COM1
> SAMTRON 40Bn SVGA colour monitor
>
>Problem 1: We areable to do minimal install of RedHat 6, but unable to
>get XWindows to work properly. Apparent reason: Monitor not supported
>(not listed in the choices given by "setup", and simple VGA/SVGA
>settings don't work either! Tried settings of 45Bn, but failed)
>
>As a result, although XWindows boots up, we get an unreadable interface
>(am barely able to discern the logout symbol and logout properly!)
>Shouldn't there be a simple way of getting a minimal readable Xwin
>interface going? And then fine tuning it inside using (say)
>"enlightenment"?
Try generic monitor. If that doesn't work, try specifying the frequencies. They
should be given in the Monitor manual.
>Btw, I have noticed postings in this list and elswhere that suggest that
>Sis6326 is a problem card vis-a-vis Linux. So perhaps we have two
>problems, not one, viz., unsupported card and unsupported monitor.
>Yikes!
This is now well documented. Please go through the archives to get the solution
for this. Actually solve this first, then try the monitor problem later.
>Problem 2: Network card detected, offers a list of netword cards which
>does not include the specific one we have, and other DLink options that
>are available don't work (portable 600, 630).
No ideas here. Sorry.
>Problem 3: When we shutdown using init 0 command or "halt" at login
>prompt, linux shuts down but does not actually switch off the PC the way
>Windows 98 does, and the way I have seen Linux do on other machines.
Set Advanced Power Management from the BIOS.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated by us novices.
>Also, any tips on configuring the modem, and on running uupc to
>upload/download our emails from NIC (perhaps somebody on this list has
>already done this?) would be very useful.
Unless its a windows only modem (aka winmodem), it should work fine under
Linux. Com1 = /dev/ttyS0, com2 = /dev/ttyS1
Modem init string same as in windows.
UUCP, try doing man uucp. Sorry haven't got round to fiddling with this stuff
yet.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Sharad Lele
>
>Institute for Social & Economic Change
>Bangalore-72
Devdas Bhagat
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