On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Daniel Fone wrote: > This is regarding the Mandrake install I had trouble with on Monday. I have > told him that these sort of queries should be directed to the CLUG.
The configuration problem was with a Riva 128 videocard and HP Pavillion M70 monitor that was bringing up X only half successfully. The window managers were not starting and the windows that did appear on occaasions had a zagged apearance, even with 640x480,16 colours etc. I suspect a riva option in /etc/X11/XF86Config as a monitor problem is usually more obvious. Monitor was set to H 30-70, V 50-120. 640x480, 16 colours. This should get sorted out eventually as the XF86Config was set up fine at the installfest with Mandrake 9.0. > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:54:21 +1200 > From: "Raycl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No problems about last night I appreciate you helping. > I decided to try a couple of things myself, All part of the learning curve. :-) > Did a reinstall, the screen was still stable but the desktop wouldn't > or couldn't load. > I then decided to (2nd) reinstall, Screen was stable but still unable to > load the desktop, I suspect a riva 128 option. > when I did the reinstall it picked hd5 as the partition to be used, not > sure if this was the correct one. I would advise against storing valuable data on a extented partition as they are very difficult to recover, althogh having the / on extended is alright. Apparently Dan did the 9.1 install on primary /dev/hda2 and it looks like Mandrake has done the reinstalls on /dev/hda5. cheers, Keith.
