Subject: Re: 8500 poor install...
From: Irena and Richard Jenkins (rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 19:24:22 MST
>Hello,
>
>First of all I am new to Linux and to this list. I am in the process of
>attempting to set up Yellow Dog 2.0 Pomona on my 8500/150. I have two drives;
>a 1gb hosting my OS 9 and a 2g hosting the linux. I have installed Pomona
>numerous times without any luck. The best I can do is get into the text
>interface.
>
>The main problem right now is that I can't seem to load XFree86 . It gives me
>a:
>
>FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid arguement.
>
>Fatal server error:
>AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
>...
>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
>Any ideas? I am ordering the Comanion book to help me through the
>introduction period. Eventually I would love to run apache and use the
>machine as a web server.
>
>Shane Hale
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Shane
Greetings from a fellow YDL version 2.0 user! I have personally installed
version 2.0 on 2 'new world' machines ... and want to install it onto an
8500 that I own. It is a really cool distribution ... and quite suitable
for being on the net/emails, etc.
Getting any linux onto xvideo is frequently quite a pain. I have seen
grown men cry in dismay at their lack of progress!! One tip: the error
messages from any xfree are frequently worse than useless. All they realy
tell you is that there is a problem!
Usually it is one of configuration and running Xautoconfig.4 will get you
out of your problem. You must be 'root' ... and I think I have that name
right Xautoconfig.4. Just check that it is on your hard disk ... use mc
(midnight commander) to find the executable file.
Shane, I am assuming you can log into your linux as a text user ... with a
command line interface. Is this so? That usually works ... and I default
to that UNTIL I am satisfied that X works for me. Defaulting to X leads to
much frustration!
More details about your machine please...
You need at least 64 Meg of RAM to run a linux. What sort of
monitor/display are you using?
Richard
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Irena and Richard Jenkins
rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au (during the year)
vk1rj@acr.net.au (during Xmas holidays)
Canberra, AUSTRALIA
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