On Friday 05 November 2004 17:34, Brian Callahan wrote: >disable rhgb when the grup comes up. Just hit the "e" key then > delete rhgb quiet > >BC I saw that in a previous message kmails search found, did it. Then got into a no-screens hell for about 10 minutes before I gave up and I was able to get to /etc/inittab and fix that too, with a 3. Then I was able to eventually get x to run via the setup tools, but not real well until I ran some other tool and set the monitor type. But I had to fool with the color depth also, it seems the rage128 driver only support 24 bit settings, and anaconda set it for 16, and I tried 32 with the same "no support for that bit depth" result. Some sort oif a cheap card, 16 megs of ram according to one tool, but I think half of it is trashed, when the screen blanker kicks in, one must switch screens to get a total redraw or the unblanked screen is trashed, heavily pixelated horizontally. But ATM, everything I've tried seems to be working except ping to some locations. My home network looks like this 192.168.xx.1 gene.coyote.den [gateway/firewall box]<->rtr<->dsl modem 192.168.xx.2 amiga.coyote.den, offline for good I think 192.168.xx.3 coyote.coyote.den 192.168.xx.4 shop.coyote.den < the new FC3RC5 install The router is a linksys, the usual home variety "something or other 41". There is a netgear 8 port switch connecting all the machines so all routing and dns lookups are on gene. I can ping that 'shop' box from coyote I can get to the internet from 'shop' just fine I cannot ping 'coyote' from 'shop' I can ping 'gene' from shop. There was a time when I had FC2 on 'shop', and all ping directions worked. If anybody has seen this particular duck, yell please. Thanks for the reply Brian, I appreciate it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.