Hi Lenz, <p>I was wondering, do you prefer I post those questions only to you ?? <p><i><font color="#3366FF"><font size=-1>Lenz Grimmer wrote:</font></font></i><i><font color="#3366FF"><font size=-1></font></font></i> <p><i><font color="#3366FF"><font size=-1>Hmm. This is strange. Does ~/.X.err give you any errors?</font></font></i><i><font color="#3366FF"><font size=-1></font></font></i> <p><font color="#000000">I will check this tonigh, my linux system is my personal computer, this account is my office account.</font><font color="#000000"></font> <p><font color="#000000">It seems to me that the monitor cannot catch the signal.</font><font color="#000000"></font> <p><font color="#000000">BTW this part of configuring the Xserver is IMHO the trickiest part of tgetting Linux up (before the network of course)</font><font color="#000000"></font> <p><font color="#000000">Gh Portefait</font> <br><font color="#000000"></font> <font color="#000000"></font> <p>-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------- <br>Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards <br>- Søren Kierkegaard - <br> <PRE> begin:vcard n:Portefait;Georges-Henry tel;fax:+33 1-45-45-16-17 tel;work:+33 1-45-45-15-55 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:SimTeam;R&D adr:;;11 Bd Bbrune;Paris;;75014;FRANCE version:2.1 email;internet:gh@simteam.com title:R&D & Infographie x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Georges-Henry Portefait end:vcard </PRE> <A HREF="bin00004.bin"> S/MIME Cryptographic Signature</A></P>

<PRE> Hi all ;) Lenz Grimmer wrote:

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Hmm. This is strange. Does ~/.X.err give you any errors?

nothing looks like errors in this file ( I didn't see the error word )

Maybe you configured a too high resolution of refresh rate?

My card is a Matrox G200 My monitor is a Formac 17" the manufacturer docs for the monitor says H sync 24-64 Vsync 50-90 I have no docs with the card for the Hsync I choose custom settings and put "24-64". The Vsync was in the list . With such a monitor is it ok to choose for example "31.5-57", if the manufacturer manual says "24-64", as "31.5-57" is an interval "inside" the one from the manufacturer ????? I was unable to choose from the list of card, because I didn't foung the G200 in it, so I had to skip this step. For the autopolling of the clock it works when I choose VGA server, it doesn't when I choose SVGA. I start the X server yesterday but only in VGA ( I had chosen VGA server). I was willing to reconfigure from the inside using saX. But SaX definetely not works on my system ( the mouse is behaving strangely). I have to precise that before upgrading my hardware I had my system working smoothly with KDE in 1024 16 bpp ( with a poor S3 trio64V+ board, everything was fine but sax was not working either !!). The only :) piece of hardware I change are: motherboard ->> ABIT BX6 CPU ->> Intel Pentium II MMX 400 Mhz RAM Graphic Board ->> Matrox G200 It seems I cannot start SVGA server , or should I try accelerated ??? thanks in advance to anyone, who can help me. This wonderful piece of equipment ( my new pc :) is only operating under that nasty other buggy windowing system.... you know :{} I really need to have a good free and stable system running on it !! regards to all, Gh portefait P.S BTW Sorry about previous postings in HTML, for those who receive tons of garbage because of me :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards - Søren Kierkegaard -</PRE> <PRE> begin:vcard n:Portefait;Georges-Henry tel;fax:+33 1-45-45-16-17 tel;work:+33 1-45-45-15-55 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:SimTeam;R&D adr:;;11 Bd Bbrune;Paris;;75014;FRANCE version:2.1 email;internet:gh@simteam.com title:R&D & Infographie x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Georges-Henry Portefait end:vcard </PRE> <A HREF="bin00005.bin"> S/MIME Cryptographic Signature</A></P>

<PRE> Greetings to all, For four days, I was posting in order to be able to run a nice X server on my new system. It WORKS, thanks to all of you guys who helped me to sort this one out, specially Lenz. Beiing able to start X give me the possibility to start KDE and then check a lot of docs which was on my system ( look into /usr/doc for those whose like me don't know where to look :) One of the major problem I ran across was that I knew I had to download something, but I didn't had a precise picture of what I was doing . Finally I upgrade with the following packages: xf86-3_3_3-2_i386.rpm xfsetup-3_3_2-2_i386.rpm xsvga-3.3.3-0.i386.rpm and I download but did NOT use this one : xmatrox-2_2-0_i386.rpm My concern here is to help non specialist users, call them the WEPP's ( Word Excel PowerPoint ) to join the world of free software. To achieve this Linux should be easier to install. It is already not that complicated to do but it is not simple either. It requires the computer culture. For example in my case, what was the minimum set of rpm I had to update and why.

From what I donwload I will say : - the general stuff >> XF86 - the setup engine >> XF86setup - the new server >> xsvga

but I 'm only guessing , is that right BTW ???? Anyway it's great to have Windows and colors without Window$ !!!:) Hummm.... I'm afraid I have other questions.... I cannot have the sound working. I guess I read what I found in the SUSE docs ( I have a 5.3 boxed set ) I rebuild the kernel and in sound I checked the option which looks the most appropriate ( I have a SB16 creative sound blaster ISA board) I trieed as module, and in the kernel, so i did: make clean make xconfig make dep zImage I edit the lilo.conf make modules make modules_install I copy the image and sytem.map I restart the system It seems that I m still missing something ??? If anyone can help, I 'll be glad Thanks in advance regards to all and for those who speaks french ... J'aime Suzie [suze] les gros linux :) GH Portefait -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards - Søren Kierkegaard -</PRE> <A HREF="bin00008.bin"> S/MIME Cryptographic Signature</A></P>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Georges-Henry Portefait wrote:

> For four days, I was posting in order to be able to run a nice X server
> on my new system.
> 
> It WORKS, thanks to all of you guys who helped me to sort this one out,
> specially Lenz.

Never mind. I'm happy to hear that you worked it out. Congratulations.

[SNIP]

> For example in my case, what was the minimum set of rpm I had to update
> and why.
> >From what I donwload I will say :
> 	 - the general stuff	>>  XF86
> 	 - the setup engine	>>  XF86setup
> 	 - the new server       >>  xsvga
> 
> but I 'm only guessing , is that right BTW ????

Yes, that should be enough.

> Hummm.... I'm afraid I have other questions....
> 
> I cannot have the sound working. I guess I read what I found in the
> SUSE docs ( I have a 5.3 boxed set ) I rebuild the kernel and in sound
> I checked the option which looks the most appropriate ( I have a SB16
> creative sound blaster ISA board) I trieed as module, and in the
> kernel, so i did:
> 
> make clean
> make xconfig
> make dep zImage
> I edit the lilo.conf
> make modules
> make modules_install
> I copy the image and sytem.map
> I restart the system
> 
> It seems that I m still missing something ???

Did you run "lilo" after installing the new kernel image? This is
essential. Alternatively you could run "make zlilo", this will install the
new kernel an run lilo automatically.

"cat /dev/sndstat" should reveal the status of your sound configuration.

Bye,
        LenZ

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