Well, that certainly makes sense. Unfortunately I did not make a boot floppy, the machine is not on a network (it is my first attempt at Linux and my other 3 machines are various flavors of Windows) and LILO only has Linux and WinME as boot choices. Hmmmmmm.
Perhaps this would be a good time to step back. I can reinstall from my RH disks from scratch and then do the 4.2.0 upgrade again and make sure to make a book disk this time. There is nothing on these partitions that I really care about. Unless you can make a boot disk on a windows machine for Linux I think I'm stuck otherwise.
The idea of modifying the config files overwhelms me as a new user. Can I install the 4.2.0 XFree86 and ONLY configure with Xconfigurator? Why didn't it ask me for the Glide libraries under version 4.0.3?
Thanks again,
Michael
Robert White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MichaelI think that your black screen is probably because X isn't properly configured and you have the machine configured to boot straight into a display manager login such as xdm, kdm etc. The reason CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will not work is that these managers run as daemons and respawn.
I think your options here are to
(i) if the box is on a network telnet onto it whilst it is at the black screen and change the default runlevel
(ii) look for a safe boot mode on your boot menu and change run level
(iii) boot from a floppy and change run levelOnce the machine will boot into character mode then it should be possible to configure X without the glide library unless you have a voodoo card that needs it. I think you can configure the card using xconfig (?) of xconfigurator which will prompt for the glide library.
The glide library issue happened to me and I got round it by a mixture of the above messages and editing the xconfig file by hand by comparing it to the example file. Eventually I got something that worked.
Keep the run level below graphical login until you are sure it works. I think 3 is multiuser 5 is graphical login on my systems but I don't know if this is universal. The run levels are cumulative.
Good Luck.
Rob
Michael Derksen wrote:
So, I download all relevant files to /root/temp/ and run the Xinstall.sh file. Installation goes GREAT! No errors, not stalls, I'm thinking "this is too good to be true!!" Well......it was. I then ran -configure and got a big error that told me that the glide library couldn't be found, yada yada yada. All this is okay if someone can point me in the direction of the necessary library (and tell me where I should put it etc.) but in the meantime, there is a different problem, when I re-booted, I get the login prompt, but then is automatically starts X and I get a black screen. i hit cntrl/atl/backspace and it won't back out to the prompt again. So, I end up have to just kill the power to shutdown. No way to re-run ANYTHING!!! I know that the black screen is probably because my laptop can not support 24-bit mode and needs to be 16-bit. But I can't get in to change it. I'd like to run Xconfigurator because I'm mor! e familiar with it. Is this a reasonable way to set up my X?Thanks again for the support
Michael(BTW, is there a similarly helpful mailing list for GENERAL Linux questions? I don't want to SPAM the list with my off-topic questions, but need some advice on a partition scheme)
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