On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Ray Pratt wrote: > Mr. Mark Vojkovich: > > Thank you for replying. I wanted to ask if your > suggested fix below was intended for someone else or > for me since I'm not using a Riva128 card as far as I > know. Does the problem come from that bug regardless? Your XFree86.0.log shows you have two cards in your system: (--) PCI:*(0:13:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 5598/6326 rev 11, Mem @ 0xfb800000/23, 0xfebf0000/16, I/O @ 0xec00/7, BIOS @ 0xfebe0000/16 (--) PCI: (1:0:0) NVidia / SGS Thomson (Joint Venture) Riva128 rev 34, Your X-Server is configured to use both cards: (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1" (**) | |-->Device "device1" (**) |-->Screen "screen2" (1) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor2" (**) | |-->Device "device2" It's choking of the second card due to the bug I mentioned. If you only want to use the SiS card you should make sure the Section "ServerLayout" in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 only references screen1 (your SiS screen). Or if you have multiple "ServerLayout" sections, that the one you want to use is listed first. Mark. > > I just signed up for the great mailing list here and > was surprized that so many people are having the same > problem with Mandrake Linux 9.1's X-Server not > working. I thought that Mandrake 9.1 would be ready > for newbie prime time, but apparently not. > > I can go to the University of Arizona library and > download ISO's of any linux I want, so do you or > anyone else have a suggestion as to which distribution > would be the most trouble free? (LinEx, the > woody-based distribution from Spain, works fine, but > it's missing a lot of features.) > > Very Respectfully, > Ray > > --- Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's a bug in the 4.3.0 NV driver in the > > Riva128 support. > > Putting: > > > > Option "NoDDC" > > > > in the Section "Device" for the Riva128 should clear > > that up. > > > > > > Mark. > > > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Ray D Pratt wrote: > > > > > Dear XFree86 Friends: > > > > > > I'm new to Linux, and I just installed Mandrake > > Linux 9.1 on my old > > > Gateway G-366 Celeron with 96 megs of RAM and a > > 20-gigabyte hardrive and > > > a SIS 6326 video card. The install screen was > > clear and beautiful, but > > > after the re-boot I got a message saying that > > X-Server won't run. After > > > several hours of reading an old Linux book and > > going through manuals in > > > text mode, I was finally figured out how to copy > > the XFree86.0.log file > > > to a DOS floppy so that I could send it to you as > > instructed in the > > > manual pages. > > > > > > The log file is included below, and I hope very > > much that you can help me > > > get X-Server running. > > > > > > Very Respectfully, > > > Ray Donald Pratt > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
