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greendragon
02-04-2002, 08:34 PM
If yall memeber me I'm the guy hwo ahd trouble with the x window and had to stick with the terminals..well as of late I'm getting plain sick of being in the terms, Trying to prove to my friends that linux is better than windows and they jsut laugh because "its jsut a look alike dos" cuz thats all they see. Is there ANY way i cna get the x window working here how it goes.
When I boot up mandrake it will do the regual colorful loading screen witht eh big star in the center and the little icons below it and then it will flash the X window login screen, after like 3 seconds it will go black and then I'll see the familir peguin thats in the terms, but black and white, repetive accros the screen diagonly. If i boot up linux-nofb (so it goes to terms) I can work in the term but i wanna get the X window working any ideas? Is it vid card? Moniter? I need something to blame and toss out the window lol..Pretty soon it might jsut be the whole computer!
[ 04 February 2002: Message edited by: greendragon ]
demian
02-04-2002, 08:44 PM
What video card are you using? What does your
XF86Config-4 file look like?
And what's worng wiht yuor kyebaodr? ;)
sarah31
02-04-2002, 08:44 PM
What are the specs are your system (esp video card and monitor) Did install go well? Were you able to configure and test X during install? What errors do you get when it drops out of X? Any specs you can give or error messages help. If you can post your XF86Config-4 file that could help, you can find it in /etc/x11 (ususally). The parts you would be most interested in are the section dealing with the video drivers and Monitor.
[ 04 February 2002: Message edited by: sarah31 ]
greendragon
02-04-2002, 09:02 PM
ok I'll check in the that x86config file...theres nothing wrong with my keyboard..its my lazyness..I've tried to correct my typing and whatnot but bah I'm to lazy i got better stuff to do lol :P
sarah31
02-04-2002, 09:04 PM
it doesn't bother me that much my typing spelling was good until I got here nhow i sukc ta spalling :)
greendragon
02-04-2002, 09:14 PM
Alrighty first off no i couldn't test the X window, i ahd no option. I go into Kazu and trya dn test it and it tells me to go back and try again.
Heres the MONITER second for the XF86
Section "Moniter"
Identifier "Generic|Generic Moniter that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "Unknown"
#blah blah blah comments
HorizSync 31.5-64.3
#more comments
VertRefresh 50-70
End Section
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
Driver "vga"
End Section
Section "Device"
Identifier "AT3d"
VendorName" Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "apm"
# VideoRam 4096
#clock Lines
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "AT3d"
Moniter "Generic|Generic Moniter that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz"
DefualtColorDepth 24
Subsection "Disply"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600 640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
Subsection "Disply"
...kinda does the subsection a few times changing the depth 8,15,16,24,32
End Section
Is that what the moniter and video card ARE or is that what i or the computer set them at?
That almost looks like an X 3.3 config file; what version of Mandrake / X are you using??
greendragon
02-04-2002, 11:41 PM
its mandrake 8.0
z0mbix
02-05-2002, 09:29 AM
You can upgrade your X version using HardDrake, but also, do cat /var/log/X* | grep EE and post us the output.