Hello! 1) My modem is not compatible with linux (winmodem) and I cannot make it a linmodem 2) I wanted to install the latest version of XFree86 3) I downloaded "Linux-ix86-glibc22" from blackdown.org with win2k 4) booted linux 5) "sh Xinstall.sh" and responded yes/no to a series of questions
observation: When I reboot, it complains that XDM will not work because /var/run/xdm.pid is missing. At that point I see "login" and right next to that ASCII garbage keeps coming in. I can do "ctr-alt-del" to reboot in windows2k. I can type "ctr-alt-F1" and have some time to look through my disk but 6 seconds later garbage appears again. Maybe there is a way to stop this garbage so I have time to reinstall "Linux-ix86-glibc22"? Is that what I should do? Fortunatly I made a back up like the How-To suggested: /usr/X11R6 (/usr/X11R6-old) /etc/X11 (/etc/X11-old) Your help would be appreciated, Matthieu
