At 05:56 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote:
Bill Mudry wrote:
At 01:02 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote:
<Cut for brevity :-)>
I waited for some time actually. There is always some chance that I should
have waited longer but I have doubts. Meanwhile, I went back into XFdrake
and was able to up the resolution to 1280 x 1024. Its what I prefer anyway.
The test showed that the card and monitor (Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 17x)
can support this resolution.
When I put in startx at the prompt, I got an interesting change. The screen
went blue again but only for 1 second or so. Then it changed to a bright red
with the cursor still in the middle. It stayed that way for a few seconds and
then dropped down to the prompt again. The screen reported the following
error:
Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a"
(once-only module, 135962511)
Something is still keeping it from proceeding further to where all icons come
up. How essential is that file? What does it do? Any further suggestions?
Still hopeful :-)
Bill Mudry
Bill; Change to the "vesa" driver we spoke about yesterday. You don't have a 3D driver installed at this point and "X" is trying to load one because it's detecting your GeForce card.
Right now, that system doesn't have the horsepower to support 3D graphics, but you should be able to get your desktop and decent graphics using the vesa driver.
By the way, did you manage to find out which video card you have in that system?
The card is an ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC. It has a Rage IIC chip. It is 1998 vintage. Doesn't that 3D mean that it, instead,
should support 3D? Where do I go, what do I do to put it into Vesa? Since this may very well be a 3D card, should I
still by trying out Vesa?
One step closer, still hopeful ;-)
Bill
-- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712
OK, Bill - Thanks for sorting out which card it is. It's possible that your card supports 3D acceleration (it most likely does), but unfortunately Mandrake (and most other downloadable distros of Linux) do not provide the 3D drivers for your graphics card.
In order to do that, you would need to download and compile drivers from ATI. It would be a lot simpler to switch over to vesa and at least get a functional desktop before venturing off into 3D land.
Log into your system using a shell/terminal/console as root and run XFdrake from the command line. Once it starts, the first option in the list selects your graphics card even though a 3D acceleration driver is not present for it.
Scroll up the list until you reach the top (probably called "Vendor") and switch to the "Xorg" list. Once that list opens, scroll down to and select the one called "vesa".
Once you return to the main menu, select "test" from the list. If you see the test screen, then everything is good. Once the test exits, go to the "Options" section in the menu and make sure it's set to start "X" when the system restarts.
That should do it. Still as root in a console, run the command "service dm start" and you should get your login box. If that doesn't do it, then you might want to consider moving to an older version of Mandrake (ie; 9.2) and doing a fresh install.
-- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712
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