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Johnny (jgates@bigpond.com) wrote:
: G'day,
: ...as they say around these parts. How are you all?
: Well I've been at it about a week...loading up Linux that is. Some
: pretty late nights in there. However, I'm determined to make that
: Microsoft break a little wider for the obvious technical and moral
: reasons.

: 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

: Clock frequency set at 60MHz.....higher or lower blanks the monitor
: post bios boot.

: Anyway..it all works great except for the XWindows /KDE etc.

: I get a blue screen, the silhouttes of Icons in white. The text boxes
: just have black spaces. It operates..i.e I can guess where the login
: screed is and where the get out button is. Screen is pretty curved.

: Anyway, so after fiddling in Xconfigurator and XF86config....still no
: joy. So I found out about XFree86. It was on a disc supplementary to
: my installation disc. I succeeded copying the RPM package to a
: directory on my hard drive. The text was in red..is this significant.
: I installed it with the "rpm -i <package> syntax. My hard drive
: whirred a bit and returned me to the bash shell. But....I can find the
: files nowhere...typing X <tab> just brings up the usual
: files...xconfig etc.....

: With the XFree86 Howto as an assistant I determined Horizontal and
: Vertical timings for my monitor hoping to plug them in manually to
: Xfree if the VGA16 GUI didn't work. But seeing as I can't seem to
: install the package..I'm stuck.....

: Anyone got any ideas

: 1) What am I doing wrong with handling the packages, 2) Is it me or
: are monitor problems a common occurrence? 3) Anyone now how I can get
: the timings I've calculated into a (?) config file. 4) Am I mistaken
: in trying to use XFree86..??

Nope.... but you had it already installed... KDE uses Xfree86.


: I eagerly await any thoughts you may have on this....

I think I know the problem.  The SIS chipsets are flaky.  Look at
www.xfree86.org for infnormation on setting them up with xf86config and/or
xf86setup.

Let us know if you need more help after that.


-Michael 


: in Anticipation..thanking you,

Always a pleasure to help someone new with Linux.


: John