RE: [XFree86] mandrake 8.1, brand new nvidia gforce, XFree86 4.3, ..."a.out"

[Phil Pritchard]

most motherboards if not in bios there will be a jumper on motherboard a.out is the result of a compile (gcc)   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [XFree86] mandrake 8.1, brand new nvidia gforce, XFree86 4.3, ..."a.out" 1998 vintage pc with win98, dual boot to Linux.   X would not work on this pc because: 1) 64m shared ram (cpu and video), 2) mandrake min rqmts were 64m ram plus 2m ram on video card.  Original video is onboard SiS597/598.  (Actually it's the desktop application (gnome, kde, etc), it works, it is just so s-l-o-w that I would wait for hours for a screen click to respond.)   Bought a video card, Nvidea Gforce4, pci, 64m ram.    No way that I can find to "disable" the onboard SiS.  (Its not an option in "press F2" during bootup.)   Plugged in the new card anyway, ran micro$oft windows98, and nvidea Gforce works fine.  (win98 device manager shows SiS disabled).   Downloaded, and ran, XFree86 4.3 Xinstall.sh -check.  (also had extract in same subdirectory).   First error message "...file: command not found",  then "...string: command not found", then   "object format is a.out" "a.out no longer supported"   Is a.out a Mandrake 8.1 problem?     If Mandrake problem - how do I fix? Is a.out a SiS problem?     If not Mandrake, but is SiS, I want to disable SiS anyway, how do I get past this roadblock? I also downloaded the nvidea driver.  Should I skip XFree86 process and jump to nvidea?   Thanks,   robere