Thought about it some more. Ka-ching... the penny dropped.
Said differently, the 2x4 finally connected with my head. Booted it again, when it stalled hit <ctl><alf><F1>. Logged in as root and started checking out the logs. It was bailing out trying to start X. The old "no screens found" error. I can't remember the number of times I ran into that trying to configure Debian 2.2 before I got my LCD. I did get it going with my old no-name monitor (with no manual, so I didn't know the horizontal and vertical sync rates, etc). First I tried copying over the XF6Config-4 file from ML8.1. Close, but no cigar. Went to /usr/X11R6/bin and run xf86config and specify all the hardware in great detail (if you've used xf86config you know what I mean). Copied XF86Config to XF86Config-4 and I seem to finally be off and running. It's interesting that xf86config apparently created ans X86 V3.x config file (going strictly by virtue of the name it used to save the configuration in). I noticed that on ML81. there is both an xf86config and xf86cfg. Wonder what the difference is. Hmmm... Thanks for the replies, it whet the mental whistle and got me started. /Pen - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
