Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:

> First, my subscription arrived via DigitalRiver!

Good!

> My first installation attempt was to install SuSE 6.2 "from scratch"
> on top of an RH 6.0 installation.

On top? This will get you in trouble. Better reformat the partition
first...

> The machine is a DELL OptiPlex 450MHz with 128MB RAM and Three HD's and
> a CD ROM.  
> It has an AGP Rage Pro 2X mach64 video card with 8MB onboard,
> DAC=207MHz.  
> The monitor is a Dell 1025TM.

Neat!

> The RH install found and identified the video card automatically, and
> I selected the Monitor.  XF86 setup was a breeze, and GNOME fired the
> first time.

I knew you had to say this :)

> Well, not so with SuSE 6.2.  
> Hey Lenz, what settings do I use for the video card? None of the mach64
> options on the install CD work.

Didn´t SaX autodetect your card? If it didn´t, try "Genereric Server
selection" and choose the Mach64 X-Server. Most cards don´t need any
special options.

> When I first installed, I decided not to "upgrade" the RH install, but
> to install on top of it with the "Install from scratch" option.  I got
> lots of *.rpmsave files generated, and then error messages about X3dmX
> (I think that is the Athena Widgets), then error messages about missing
> directories, etc..
> When the system finally gave me a longin prompt, following the message
> "Please login as 'root'...", it rejected root as a valid user.  I had no
> choice but to boot DOS and run FDISK to blow the partitions away.  THEN,
> the install from "scratch" option worked perfectly.  I installed
> everything and one hour and 15 minutes later I was setting at the
> command prompt as root.

Yes, that is the best way. Installing over a totally different kind of
distribution without formatting will leave you with a load of abandoned
files. This will end up in a mess.

> I ran 'sax' and discovered that no video options for the ATI AGP Rage
> Pro 2X video card exists, and that the closest I can get to the
> montior is Dell 1025HE.  The monitor may work, but I know that none of
> the video options do.

As mentioned before, try the generic Mach64, if SaX does not tell
"Autodetect" in the server selection. If your monitor is not in the list,
choose the expert settings and enter the frequency range as stated in the
monitor´s manual.

> I attempted to run XF86Config but it wasn't in the path.  I tried
> /etc/XF86Config but I wouldn't work either.  I tried to 'locate' it
> but locate wasn't found.  I tried locatedb but it wasn't found.

Did you try "xf86config"? Only "XF86Setup" ist written with capital
letters (and I hate this inconsistency) :)

> Then it was time to go home, so I will set some profile and boot.local
> settings tomorrow.
> 
> Moral: burn RH to the ground before you install SuSE!

I second that :)

Bye,
        LenZ


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