Wow, that's a bit of a shopping list.
When you say that "X errors out", how specifically does it error out? ONE
way to get this information is to redirect stderr when you start X:
$ startx >& Xerrs.out
Then read that and see what it says.
As far as the mouse goes, if it's a serial mouse, have you verified your
serial settings? What type of mouse is it? Perhaps you can tell Linux it's a
Microsoft 2-button serial mouse? Do you have docs for the mouse? What other
mice does it say it's compatible with?
NIC -- Who makes the chipset? You need to provide more information if people
are going to have a shot at helping you out.
Essentially, read the XFree86-HOWTO, the Serial-HOWTO, NET*-HOWTO, and files
under /usr/src/linux/Documentation. All of these are simple text files, so
you can load the installation CD on another system and read them from there
if you can't get your Linux installation going.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Marinoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:07 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
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Subject: RE: 6.1 Install
Ok, that did work. Now the tweeking I think I need help with. Windows said
that my video is SiS 5597/5598 and linux probe said it is a SiS 5598. And
the monitor is Gateway Vivitron 15. But when it tries to install the x
interface, it errors out and then not work. I have a Intel Pentium MMX 200
(wanting to upgrade to AMD K6II 300 shortly) and a generic mouse on serial
1, 2 button (which is not working within linux neither). I have had 5.1 on
this system before, but never got the NIC working neither (Wake On LAN
10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter, IRQ 9 but the range in windows for
memory is FFADE000 - FFADEFFF) 2 hard drives, 2926MB and 1040MB, wanting
to partiton as follows.
Hda1 - /boot -16MB
Hda? - swap - 64MB
Hda? - /usr - 512+MB
Hda? - /home - 512+MB
Hda? - / - 256MB
Hdb1 - /dos or /windows, which ever WINE needs, whole smaller HDD
I have 44MB ram, EDO
Anything else ya need to know?
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Hildreth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 6.1 Install
Try typing "text" at the LILO prompt and use the text version of the
installer, bet you have a SIS based chipset vidoe (like a SpeedStar
A50), and does not work right without some XConfiguration tweaking.
HTH,
Later..
Steven
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Marinoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:35 AM
Subject: 6.1 Install
> Help! The installation of 6.1 is not readable. I have all
onboard
> components (SIS) and all text during the gui install is blocked
black. I
> flipped through the manual and all the books on linux I have is on
the 5.x.
> What shall I do?
>
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