Re: Help needed

[Sam Simpson <nospam [at] freenet.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: Sheffield LUG <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Help needed

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Hoon Kiat Ng wrote:
>
> > I have bought the RedHat Linux 6.1 Deluxe and I am having trouble trying
> > to install the X Windows package. It seems that everytime I start the X
> > Windows, I would not be able to log out. The computer would hang. By the
> > way, my graphic card is the Savage 4 Pro with the 86C397 S3 128 bit
> > chipset. I would really appreciate it if you can explain to me how I can
> > tackle the problem.
>
> Could you be a little more specific about the problem? For example, how
> are you starting X-windows? Does it come on automatically, or do you run a
> program to start it?
>
> Also, what are the symptoms of the hang? Do you get a grey screen, with a
> cross pointer in the middle? If you press Ctrl-Alt-F2, do you get to a
> text login screen (what we call a virtual terminal)?
>
> As far as I know, the Savage isn't directly supported under linux, but you
> should certainly be able to use the SVGA X-Server to run X Windows. If you
> have a text prompt, you should be able to run XF86Setup to configure the
> X-Windows environment. After you configure it, XF86Setup will launch a
> test server to check the new mode: if everything checks out in XF86Setup,
> there should be no problems running an X-Windows session on your machine.
>
RH 6.1 doesn't install XF86Setup,(at least not with the kde workstation
option) it has XF86Configurator, (which I couldn't get to work). You have to
install XF86Setup yourself, along with XFree86-VGA.

Sam>
>
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