trouble getting Linux installed

[Barnett, Blake]

RH 6.2 picked up everything in my system on the install, SB Live, Monitor
(Brand new ViewSonic PF795), Video Card (Diamond Viper 550 - nvidia TNT),
and all my partitions on a 13GB WD HD.  Although I didn't use more than /,
/usr, /home, /var, & /tmp.  Just FYI.

As far as your HD goes, it may be that the bios settings and the linux
settings do not match.  Worth a look.  Maybe you should set the settings
manually in the bios. 

To fix your monitor just get the info for it, (vert & horiz refresh rates).
And run xf86config or XF86Setup.

The video card is most likely just a driver issue, and for better support, X
4.0.1 (installed from the binaries) worked like a charm on some other S3
cards I have.

To be honest, the fact that it installed my SB Live on install was a real
shocker, as I had spent countless hours previously trying to get it working
with Alsa, and OSS, with various degrees of success.  As far as winmodems, I
have a Creative 56k ISA plug & play in there, but I haven't attempted to use
it, because I have Cable.

*  Blake


-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Roark [mailto:rod@sunsetsystems.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 8:30 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: trouble getting Linux installed


I gave up on the Trio 3D a while back, too many problems.  Dunno about
the modem, check http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html.  OSSFree
support for SB Live is questionable, ALSA is better.  From what you're
describing there may also be a hardware failure somewhere, and if you
ever get things running you should do a few kernel compiles to wring it
out.

Good luck...

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I thought I was a bit more knowledgable, but humble pie again!
> 
> The system: AMD 500 K-6 w/128MB, Lan Express lan card (unsupported from
> what I can tell, need to get another), SB Live, Modem Blaster PCI, S3
> Trio3D AGP w/8MB, dedicated 13GB HDD, floppy, CDROM and a Digiview 17"
> monitor.
> 
> In trying to load up RH Linux 6.1 that was included in Osborne's "Linux
> Administration, A beginner's guide", it seems to go all the way thru
> except at the end of the install it says to hit 'RETURN' and it will
> re-boot. It doesn't and I hit the reset. The Xconfigurator doesn't see
> the AGP card and I can't startx. I am able to use regular mode. I also
> tried Storm, and Mandrake 7.1 from the Aug/Sept issue of Maximum Linux.
> 
> It also seems that too many file systems are bad too. I.E, of the 13GB,
> / = 512MB; /usr = 4GB; /var = /tmp = 2GB ea, swap = 128MB and /home =
> the rest seems to make it but when I tried to also use /boot, /usr1,
> /usr2 I got errors on the re-boot.
> 
> Mandrake 7.1 seems to be real good, but I couldn't get the monitor
> settings setup, even tho the graphical setup looked real good.
> 
> I've spent most of this fine sunday messing with it. Also tried to use
> RH 5 and upgrade to the 6.1 disc but no go. Storm was worse. 
> 
> I really liked the Mandrake since it had support for the HP 1000C
> printer and also the S3 AGP card, it's just the monitor.
> 
> Anything helpful?
> 
> Thanks much in advance and hope to meet some of you at the next meeting.

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