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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

I can help you. The same thing happened to me. I have a Aopen PA50V Video
card with 8M ram. When you are installing RH6.2 and you get to select you
Video card select SIS6326. At the bottom of the page you will see 3 or 4
click buttons....... One is named somthing like "Configure X" click on this
and also "Graphical Login" Don't forget to set the horizontal and vertical
ranges. Then press NEXT. You will then be able to test the settings I used
800X600 in 8 bits and 16 bits. If you test each setting. You will get the
drift of it.
Little Fish

"Johnny" <jgates@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:39786678.1795867@news.bigpond.com...
> 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..??
>
> I eagerly await any thoughts you may have on this....
>
> in Anticipation..thanking you,
>
> John
>
>
>
>