Re: Trident giving me migraine
Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:38:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Mark Marburger wrote:
> > >
> > > HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I
> > > put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black!!!! How
> > > do I get into xf86config to change the settings??
> >
>
> I had what could be a similar problem when I was trying to get my voodoo 3 to
> work. I had foolishly set my box to runlevel 5 so it kept trying to fire up
> gdm on boot, and it would keep trying, failing, retrying without givimg me
> enough time to even hig ctrl-alt-backspace or switch to another tty to shut
> things down.
> I eventually fixed it by booting via the Mandrake CD (which is what's on that box)
> and when I got to the installation part, I switched over to another tty (F4 I think)
> which was set up in single user mode (could be a nasty security flaw, but....). From
> there I could get to the main drive and alter the init files to change to runlevel 3,
ctrl-alt-f1 should put you in a text mode console. Log in as root and
do XF86Setup
jpb
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