[XFree86] no screen error

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Soper
Hi, I have an older, (late 90's vintage Pentium Pro) computer that I am hoping to convert to run MSC linux, for which I have a set of V2001 CD's. I am booting off their distribution CD with a essentially blank, NTFS formatted secondary 18G Hard disk where I wanted to install the OS and

Re: [XFree86] no screen error

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Elsa's GLoria line spans many generations and different chip vendors. Which driver to use depends on which specific model you have. The VGA driver, which you are currently using, is for plain VGA mode (depth 4 @ 640x480). The whole server output is at /var/log/XFree86.0.log

Re: [XFree86] no screen error

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Soper
Glad to somebody found my message, excuse me for being such a noob and asking such silly questions, I'm afraid I've been spoon fed by microsoft and apple for a couple decades now, so it's taking me a while to get my thinking cap on. and I'm afraid the latest answers only leave me with more