NM2160 XFree86 problem "solution" (workaround)

2002-06-25 Thread Jonathan A. Hagn
Hello, all. No small thanks to Mr. Matthew Bradford, I did manage to finally get X up and running on the NEC Ready 340T that was giving me trouble under RH 7.1 and 7.3 (but that worked fine with 7.0). The solution? Install 7.0, back up the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files from /etc/X11, install

Re: General XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:25 pm, Jonathan A. Hagn wrote: > However, during the Xconfigurator setup after my text login to 7.1, I > noticed the same difference with 7.1 as with 7.3 from 7.0 -- upon > "Probe"-ing, both of the later versions list the "

Re: NM 2160 XFree86 Problem (response to Mike Burger)

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Burger
Did you also specify the actual monitor that you're using? On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Jonathan A. Hagn wrote: > > From: Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I'm running 7.3 on a Dell Latitude CPi, which also has the NeoMagic 128XD, > > and it installed flawlessly. > > > > The only thing to rememb

General XFree86 Problem (response to Matt Bradford re: NM2160 XFree86 Problem)

2002-06-18 Thread Jonathan A. Hagn
> From: "Matthew Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > whew.. that was a mouth full. :-) That was nothing...There was still a bunch of stuff I left out! Ha...I guess that's what happens when you try for a really long time to fix something yourself and then finally throw up your hands and ask for hel

NM 2160 XFree86 Problem (response to Mike Burger)

2002-06-18 Thread Jonathan A. Hagn
> From: Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm running 7.3 on a Dell Latitude CPi, which also has the NeoMagic 128XD, > and it installed flawlessly. > > The only thing to remember is to keep an eye on how much video RAM you > tell it that you have installed. > > The max resolution is 1024x768,

Re: NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Jason P Holland
you can hit alt-ctrl-F1 to get to the first virtual console from a bad X session. or, you can try booting into single user mode. once you get to the command line, you need to edit your /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3, from 5. jason > > Howdy! > > > > I am attempting to

Re: NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:18 PM Subject: NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem > Howdy! > > I am attempting to install Redhat Linux on a stripped down NEC Ready 340T > (i.e. it no longer has the original display, keyboard, or touchpad) hooked >

Re: NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Burger
I'm running 7.3 on a Dell Latitude CPi, which also has the NeoMagic 128XD, and it installed flawlessly. The only thing to remember is to keep an eye on how much video RAM you tell it that you have installed. The max resolution is 1024x768, with 16bit color depth, as I recall, on my particular

NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Jonathan A. Hagn
Howdy! I am attempting to install Redhat Linux on a stripped down NEC Ready 340T (i.e. it no longer has the original display, keyboard, or touchpad) hooked up to a Gateway EV500 monitor, a 101-key keyboard, and a 3-button serial mouse. Which version? Well, that's a part of the problem... Some n

Re: Xfree86 problem

1998-03-16 Thread system user
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, kaiwei wrote: > i have a S3 GX/2 card in my pc. i install redhat 5.o & when starting x ran > into a problem with my video card. however, i found that Xfree86 3.3.2 > supports S3 GX/2. as i am a newbie to linux(no exprience before), how do i > > 1) download Xfree86 3.3.2 as

Xfree86 problem

1998-03-14 Thread kaiwei
i have a S3 GX/2 card in my pc. i install redhat 5.o & when starting x ran into a problem with my video card. however, i found that Xfree86 3.3.2 supports S3 GX/2. as i am a newbie to linux(no exprience before), how do i 1) download Xfree86 3.3.2 as a redhat rpm file. if downloaded, how to insta