🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi there,

Last week I wasn't going to lose it...I wrote........

Ok..the story so far. Bought Mandrake Linux (enhanced Red hat the box
said), used the Partition Magic programme in Win 95, created
partitions and loaded up Linux. 

Great...I have the bash shell...and there my friends it stops. Now, I
think this is pretty common but my monitor doesn't want to perform
when it comes to the KDE desktop.

Some specs

MONITOR

Make VISAGE
Model 105ED
B'width 65 MHz
H/Freq 30-54
V/Freq 50-120

Has anyone one of these...??

Motherboard Pentium ASUS SP97-V
with SiS 5598 integrated VGA (4MB) on board....

....sooooo...where am I this week. Worked out how to use XFree....went
back and installed the bits I was missing. Got into the low res VGA16
screen and configured it all. Then...on the re-boot /
Xstart......nothing. A blue screen with a log in box and blacked out
text. 

Ctrl-Alt - + only resizes the picture.

However if I boot on a run level 5...ie straight into the desktop...I
can see all the icons.....caramba....I can see the silhouettes that is
and my mouse pointer is a big white box. Clicking on the outlines
gives just that. Outlines of the windows but no text. I am
thinking..is this a monitor or a font problem. I think possibly
both..the text is missing / blacked out but the picture is pretty
distorted.

I have run XFree and xconfigurator until I am blue in the face.

I have contacted my motherboard people.....????? 

So I then upgraded to Xfree 4.0.....ensuring I obtained the correct
library. Installation of the mandatory files just left me with a grey
screen and a big X. So, I was better off with 3.3.35mdk that I had.
I'm thinking of tossing the whole install and going back to loading
3.3.35 up.

1) Has anyone any info on this card / monitor other than what is at
Xfree and the other websites....specifically SiS 5598....???

2) Does anyone want a copy of my config file to have a look. I have
calculated some modelines but am not sure where to put them in.....I
have become very familiar with vi.

3) I'll give you my URL so you can go for a bit of a laugh.

4) Friends I am despairng......what shall I make my next project when
I throw my Linux discs in the bin........????

Thanking you in anticipation, and thanks to all those who helped last
week. MOB I can't seem to deliver mail to your box...: - )

John