On Saturday September 6 2003 10:34 am, crak600 wrote:
> so anyway, how do i fix my screwups? the lilo screen now has all
> the regular options plus the "old linux", "old linux-nonfb", "old
> linux failsafe", which those are the ones that i can't get
> anywhere in. do i just forge onward and remove those things from
> lilo.conf or can i fix what i screwed up? thanks!
>
> Mike
I'm a little fuzzy on just what your video problems are. If you
inherited the GeF card on a screwed mobo, it could just be that the
card is compromised also. I believe I'd boot to lilo, an hit <Esc>,
then, 'linux init 3 mem=860M' (check you current lilo.conf, you
might need to add other parameters, eg, acpi=off) and as root run
'XFdrake'. Choose conservative video card an monitor settings to
get started with. Probly 1024x768 @ 60Hz, 30-70 kHz HorizSync
50-120 Hz VertRefresh.
'lspcidrake' and 'ddcxinfos' will tell you which video card you
have, and what your monitor specs are (HorizSync, VertRefresh) if
the hardware has this info imbedded in it's firmware. There's
another utility that reports onboard video ram, but for the life of
me I can't remember what it is. Vram shouldn't be a problem for
configuring the Vcard an monitor tho.
As to 'old' stanza's in lilo.conf, just delete them, an run
'lilo'. I believe MCC has a GUI for doin it too. If your /boot
partition is gettin full, carefully delete old images (vmlinuz) an
initrd's. They're the only files that use a lot of disk space, the
links (system.map, config*, etc.) you can leave (or delete). Just
be careful. If you have a spare partition to back up to, it's
probly a good idea to backup /boot before you try any deleting.
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