🚀 go-pugleaf

Oh MAN........reading all these posts on getting Red Hat to install brought
back horrible memories.......UGH........I need more tequila.....

JP


Michael McCollum <Grandpa@nospam.att.net> wrote in message
news:7qf6jq$i2m$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net...
> We had a nice article from Dwight Silverman on LINUX this week in the
local
> Chronicle.
> He strongly likes Caldera 2.2, far more than RedHat 6, Caldera is a lot
> easier on the installation part, RedHat takes some work.  Sounds like you
> got that down already though.  I didn't.
>
> I couldn't get ANY thing runnnning in graphics modes, only TEXT.  No
XFree,
> no Gnome.  Just TEXT mode.
>
> That 16 color mode may be ALL you can do with that card in X and Gnome for
> now.
>
> Grandpa
>
> PS- Slackware is FAR worse.
>
> Lars Gundar wrote in message <37ca0af3.334882@news>...
> >Okay, I've been banging my head on this one for several days now.
> >I've read ever post and faq on the subject, so I just might be
> >extraordinarily stupid.  Please bear with me...
> >
> >I'm trying to get RedHat 6 (storebought version) to play friendly with
> >my Creative labs TNT2Ultra -- without much success.
> >
> >Here's what I'm doing:
> >
> >- Basic, no-frills Redhat install to hard disk.
> >- Initially install XFree86 as "generic vga".
> >- Boot up into RH6.  Everything works.  Gnome works in lovely VGA16
> >mode.
> >- Toss RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz into the root dir.
> >- Run tar xzf blahblahblah
> >- Go to the created dir, type ".\riva_install"
> >- Run "xconfig"
> >- Enter mouse stuff
> >- Press ENTER when prompted to enter video card #
> >- Choose SVGA server (choice #3)
> >- Enter horiz and vert monitor stuff (7 then 2, if it matters)
> >- WTF to do about clockchip?  I press enter instead of choosing
> >anything.
> >- Skip probe.
> >- Hit "5" to accept video modes.
> >- startx.  Looks like 640x480x 16 color (yuk), with a larger virtual
> >desktop.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?  I've tried this (and other things) like 6
> >times now.
> >
> >Can somebody please give me retarded-5-year-old-type instructions on
> >how do to this?  Every keypress, every prompt, everything.  I cannot
> >be trusted to understand anything, no matter how simple.
> >
> >You'd think that after 15 years of hardcore computer use, I'd be able
> >to figure this kind of thing out - but apparently hardware
> >configuration under linux requires a degree of IQ and patience that
> >most mortals are incapable of.  This experience has truly humbled me.
> >I think I'll go sign up for AOL now...
> >
>
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