Fred Installing stuff is a pain in the butt if you come from a Windows environment which all you need to do is double click on install.exe
Thank you, Todd Williamsen, MCSE home: 847.265.4692 Cell: 847.867.9427 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fred Bazolo Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]Xfree86 Support for Radeon? I don't see it in theDriver List! I can relate! At least you can console yourself with the fact that you're further down the learning curve then me! Thank goodness for Dexter. On Thursday 06 December 2001 14:47, you wrote: > Ahhh I see... > > I looked at the online manuals to see how to install it and configure > it...; I print them out to follow while the install and config > process is going on.. But, it said xf86config or something like > that... > > Now that I screwed up everything... How do I restore it to its orignal > state since KDE is hosed as well and no mouse will not move correctly > and the screen is shifted to the left where I cannot see or execute a > command from the prompt > > Thank you, > > Todd Williamsen, MCSE > home: 847.265.4692 > Cell: 847.867.9427 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Dexter Filmore > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Newbie]Xfree86 Support for Radeon? I don't see it in > theDriver List! > > > simply dont use xf86config but "XFree86 -configure" instead. Tweak it > manually afterwards (read through man XFree86 for what rthe sections > do) > > Todd Williamsen schrieb: > > I didn't see the Radeon in the list when I configured Xfree > > > > Thank you, > > > > Todd Williamsen, MCSE > > home: 847.265.4692 > > Cell: 847.867.9427 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > > Behalf Of Daniel E. Shipton > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:16 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Newbie]Xfree86 Support for Radeon? I don't see it in > > theDriver List! > > > > radeon's are supported. > > > > driver is radeon........... > > > > daniel.e.shipton > > > > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 10:22, Todd Williamsen wrote: > > I upgraded to 4.1.x of Xfree86 which went over fine. Then I ran > > the > > > xf86config and set everything back. I set the video card to Ati > > All > > > in wonder, but I have a Radeon 64mb VIVO, which I thought was > > supported, but isn't in the list. Then I set my mouse to my mouse > > which is a Microsoft Intellimouse. > > > > Now, after this, I rebooted then the color and depth was great, > > but > > > the mouse was wacked out where it wasn't responding too well and > > the > > > display was shifted to the right. > > > > I looked to see how to fix this, but it says reconfigure xfree, > > so > > I > > > tried by running it in fail-safe mode, which the terminal did not > > respond. How do I fix this and how do I get to a pure terminal > > where > > > I can reconfigure this? How do you stop KDE from starting up? > > > > I thought this Xfree had Radeon support, but I guess not. I just > > wanted a normal 2D environment with this card, and a 1024 x768 > > resolution with either 16-bit or 32-bit color would definitely > > make > > > me a happy camper. Yes, I am a newbie to Linux, and I am > > surprised > > > as hell that I got something installed under Linux (previous > > install > > > tried hosed kernels before). > > > > ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated! > > > > Thank you, > > > > Todd Williamsen, MCSE > > home: 847.265.4692 > > Cell: 847.867.9427 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
