Re: trouble installing x-window system
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:16, Tim Folger wrote:
> Thanks Mitch, I'll give that a try. I was wondering: would it would make
> any difference if I used Tasksel and chose laptop system during the
> installation. (I skipped over tasksel during my first installation
> attempt, and now I'm gearing up for a second try.)
>
> Tim
>
Shouldn't really change anything. All it does is allow you to select
packages to install in some predefined groups to help simplify and
speedup the process if you don't really know what packages you
want/need.
You should probably avoid it if you want to dist-upgrade to unstable as
there is less chance for trouble on a minimal system.
It will install a few too many packages, but probably not too much.
>
>
>
> Try providing the output of lspci -vv (It can help if you can find the
> field for the video adapter and post only that).
> The rage mobility M1 is a mach64 card and it uses the ati driver.
> Try setting only the native screen resolution for you lcd as a start and
> not all 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. Maybe that causes a lockdown since
> the card doesn't handle this for some reason. If its a 14.1"+ screen its
> probably 1024x768 with that card.
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 07:42, Tim Folger wrote:
>
> >> I don't have much information on the model aside from ati rage mobility
> >> M/M1/P. I tried the ati and vesa drivers with no luck.I didn't think to
> >> try the r128 or radeon. Has you had success with those?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tim
>
>
> >>> > ati rage mobility video adapter.
> >
> >>
> >> What model exactly?
> >>
> >
> >>> > my computer
> >>> > hung during advanced monitor configuration, on the step where you're
> >>> > supposed to choose the resolutions your monitor will support. (I
> >
> >> checked
> >
> >>> > 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and left the rest blank.)When I hit
> >
> >> "enter"
> >
> >>> > to move to the next screen nothing happened and I had to reboot.
> >
> >>
> >> What driver did you choose? ati, r128, radeon? Have you tried "vesa" as
> >> a
> >> last-resort alternative?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Frank
> >> --
> >> Frank Trenkamp frank at trenkamp dot org
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> >> --
> >> lately on /.:
> >
> >>> > My record is 55 hours of straight coding.
> >
> >> Followed, no doubt, by six weeks of debugging.
> >>
> >>
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> -- Micha Feigin michf@math.tau.ac.il
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> Tim Folger
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