On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:34 am, you wrote:
well, so much of trying to get help from others. I gave up and decided to
go ahead and use the i810 as my graphic card. maybe the next release of
mandrake would fix all this. It was such a pain trying everything from bios
to tweaking the xf86config and nothing works. Even I found the test thingies
after I push cancel when it says I want to configure my X and that didnt work
either. it just froze up the system. Mandrakeexpert is of no help either.
They gives me suggestions which I have already tried.
> I configure xdrake and it get this error message: when i try to strart in
> x. Maybe i should buy the regular linux mandrake instead of lnx4win. I
> like your quote to mark.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86
>
> > Rob,
> >
> > have you used XFdrake yet to setup your display? That is an awesome tool.
> > In console mode type "setuptool" as root user and you have a whole menu
> > of tools with which to do basic config of your Linux system. Xfdrake is
> > just one of the items on the menu.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
>
> worthless,"
>
> > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Robin Regennitter wrote:
> > > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:12:59 -0800
> > > From: Robin Regennitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86
> > >
> > > yeah, I've tried XF86config. I've looked into the mobo and jumpers
>
> there
>
> > > are only for resetting bios nothing about a jumper disabling i810.
> > > One question I have is BusID. I looked under the documentation and it
> > > says something about BusID. It is not very clear on how they setup
> > > "BusID "PCI:0:0:0" I thought well the card is in PCI slot #4. so
> > > I had it like this --> "BusID "PCI:4:0:0"" still it can't find
> > > device.
>
> Maybe I
>
> > > should download the latest DrakXtools and install that. maybe they
>
> fixed a
>
> > > bug on the XFdrake on 7.2.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Allen Joseph M Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:21 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86
> > >
> > > > Type XF86config at the command line and dabble with it as root.
> > > >
> > > > [oldie, but still a newbie] *8-)
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > >I was wondering how i could configure my xfree86. If you have the
> > >
> > > knowledge=
> > >
> > > > > please tell me the whole command for doing this (i am a newbie:one
> > >
> > > day).=
> > >
> > > > >=20
> > > > >i want to do this because i get this error when i type startx:
> > > > >(EE) No devices detected=20
> > > > >datal server error=20
> > > > >no screens found=20
> > > > >X connection to :0.0 broken=20
> > > > >(explicit kill or server shutdown)
> > > > >
> > > > >i was wondering could this be that its not detecting my voodoo card
>
> and
>
> > > is =
> > >
> > > > >trying to use my disable i810 c
> > > >
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