🚀 go-pugleaf

From the command line.. start yast
go through to System Admin
then configure XFree86
you should have the option of SAX

have fun.. and make windows with X!!

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"hysterion" <hysterion@mac.com> wrote in message
news:3AAD9495.A50E756C@mac.com...
> Hello,
>
> I got SuSE Linux 7.0 for Power Mac yesterday, and have been
> trying to install it on my old Power Mac 7300/180. I obtain
> a command line *nix which works (can navigate directories,
> use pine, vi, etc.), but I still have two major problems:
>
>
> 1) How do I get X Windows?  The manual warns (�8.2) to
>    "Never start X until the configuration is finished.
>    A wrongly configured system can cause irreparable damage
>    to your hardware."
>
>    It also seems to say in �8.4 that for a machine like mine
>    (/proc/fb says it has "Control" graphic chip, hence should
>    use XFree86 3.3.6, not 4.0), said configuration is mostly
>    done automatically during installation, except I should
>    adjust screen settings using the Framebuffer (xsfbswitch).
>
>    Unfortunately xsfbswitch does *nothing*, and in fact an
>    install log  ("Output of SuSE config") gives me the line:
>    "XFree86 not configured yet! No graphical login. Check
>    /etc/XF86Config."   What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> 2) I seem to have some serious file system trouble. On many
>    a bootup, the INIT log says that /dev/sda10 (my intended
>    root partition) "contains a file system with errors, check
>    forced". Twice it sent me running fsck.ext2 /dev/sda10
>    manually. This seems to fix a few blocks, but the problem
>    ultimately reappears.
>
>    Also, if I try to look up the partition table using YaST
>    (as in �3.3.9 of the manual) I get "No partitions available"
>    with fdisk error message: "Device contains neither a valid
>    DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel. (...)"
>
>    Yet the installer seems to recognize my partitions (both
>    HFS (sda7,sda8) and linux (sda9,sda10)), and on shutdown I
>    do get the lines: /dev/sda8 unmounted, /dev/sda7 unmounted,
>    /dev/sda10 unmounted...
>
> Any ideas?  Many thanks in advance.
>
> hysterion
>