I had *exactly* the same problem - you have 2 options: 1. edit XF86config. find driver section add line: Option NoAccel
X now works, but is damn slow. 2. get CVS snapshot, download the 300somewhat megs of version 4.1.99, compile, install, pray it doesn't mess up your system more than it help cuz it's beta. Worked here on my machine. Troy Frost schrieb: > I have been wrestling with this problem for quite some time now and I > am totally clueless. I've got an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO video card, > and I'm trying to run Mandrake 8.0 with X. I have no problem > booting/running Linux but when I 'startx' I get a blank screen with no > errors - my monitor appears to go into 'standby' when I try to run X - > at which point I loose all control of my system and become unable to > feed any commands to my OS. I've tried just about every release of > Xfree86 I could find (the most recent one being 4.1.0), none of which > have solved this problem (even after configuring my X server with VERY > modest settings). I have no fancy configuration on my video card (I > have only my monitor plugged connected to it, no special VIVO > peripherals) and have had no problems whatsoever installing and > running X on other computers on my LAN (all of which have less > sophisticated hardware...fyi). I'm somewhat new to Linux and I cannot > find anything about this problem anywhere. Please Help!~Troy -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ P>++ L+>++ E- W++ N- o? K? w--(---) !O M-- V? PS+ PE+++(++) Y+ PGP- t+(++) 5 X+(++) R++(+++) tv--@ b++ DI+++ D+ G(--) e* h(+) r%>* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Nothing fights like the opposition _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
