Keith Antoine wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first > time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and > in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and > says:: > init id "x" respawning too fast, disable for 5 min > > That seems to be a video card problem but the /etc/X11/XF86Config looks ok to > me. > > What am I missing or what do i look for otherwise its a re-install with no > guarantees it will work. > > card is linux compatible Nvidia gforce with video out, M200 I think from > memory. > -- > Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' > 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 > Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage
Believe it's pretty much a Mandrake bug. 8.1. Like Richard III 8.1 was born into the world undone, as was its predecessor 8.0. I've installed 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 on various boxes. Both 8.0 and 8.1 sent the same error message at bootup, but only after they had been operational for over a week. The video cards I was using was your general purpose S3 Trio or Virge with 4 MB. The only solution I was able to implement was go back to using 7.1. I think Mandrake, like Caldera and Red Hat have adopted the M$ new distro development model. After releasing a really good distro (Win 95, COL 2.2, Mandrake 7.1) follow it with one not quite so good and degrade the overall quality with each new release toward the ultimate crapzoid of XP. Lee > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
