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Hi,
I have an older, (late 90's vintage Pentium Pro)
computer that I am hoping to convert to run MSC linux, for which I have a set of
V2001 CD's.
I am booting off their distribution CD with a
essentially blank, NTFS formatted secondary 18G Hard disk where I wanted to
install the OS and apps.
In attepting the installation I get these last two
"server" errors-
(EE) VGA(0): Driver Can't support depth
24
and
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a
usable configuration.
followed by;
Fatal Server Error:
no screens found.
This machine has an Elsa Gloria SVGA graphics card
but I don't know how linux is supposed to recognize that? Is it something I
should go and manually edit on the pre-boot system config screen?
I know it tells me I should be reporting the whole
server output instead of just the end of the message, but I don't know linux
command line stuff well enough to accress the file you point me to.
The last error message I see is this;
XIO: fatal error 104 (Connection reset by
peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events
remaining
then I get a "Welcome to MSC.Linux 2001"
header followed by a direction to login
as root, where I find myself staring at a blinking dollar sign prompt, just like
my old days on the VAX-80, but I can't seem to tell it to do anything beyond
that.
by the way- the kernal number is
2.4.6-1.msc-smp
Any suggestions on where to look or what to try to
fix this up?
Thanks
Pete Soper
Berkeley CA
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