driver cannot support deapth 24?

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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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