Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

[Bernardo Rodrigues]

Hi Mauro,

You're a  star. I've tried all the suggestions that you've sent to me
and all of them work just fine.
I can get many colors and no longer have the darkish background. Also
no problems with the refresh rate and the resolution. I went as far as
1280x1024 and no complains whatsoever. KDE is cool I just don't like
the idea of too many icons on my  desktop.
 However there seems to be a small problem wit the task bar, it slides
all the time ( form left to right and viceversa), I had some fun with
it but now it is a bit annoying. How do I fix this?
I shall probably submit something on the configuration of the sound,
but I am yet to try by myself and see whether I can get the beast to
work. I get absolutely no sound from any audio CD. I am reading the
notes and will see what to do.  By the way how do I mount the floppy
driver and the  CD-ROM?

Thanks for you dedicated patience.

All the best to you.
Regards

Bernardo


>>> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/01/99 02:25PM >>>
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Bernardo Rodrigues wrote:

> My video card is a SiS 6326 pro AGP. 

 I used to have a SiS card. Usually SiS cards need the following
line in /etc/X11/XF68config (in the "Device" section):

 option "no_bitblt"


 An extract from my XF86config follows:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "SiS SG86C201"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"
    Option      "no_bitblt"
    #VideoRam    2048
    Clocks  25.07  28.32  39.83  72.16  49.79  77.14  35.95  44.72
    Clocks 129.50 119.53  79.67  31.51 109.52  64.71  74.68  94.55
    Clocks  12.53  14.16  19.91  35.95  24.90  38.63  17.99  22.36
    Clocks  64.73  59.75  39.83  15.76  54.90  32.35  37.33  47.27
EndSection

 If it still does not work try with:

Option "no_linear" (perhaps in combination with "no_bitblt")
 
 or

Option "no_imageblt"

 or 

Option "noaccel"  

 Take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS ;-)

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Mauro Tortonesi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

There is no dark side of the moon, really. 
 Matter of fact it's all dark.