[Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1

[Jill Tovey]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:59, Alex Craddock wrote:
> Good news.  I have sorted out that problem it seems. 

Out of interest - do you know what went wrong?

 Slackware has 
> installed, however when it came to the login prompt, I logged in and typed 
> 'startx'.  It came up with an error saying that it couldn't start the server 
> because it couldn't recognise my monitor (I think, could have been graphics 
> card it was a bit hard to understand).  It said though that the problem 
> might be if the graphics card was made after September (?) 2002 and the 
> version of Xfree86 wasn't the latest.  I just got a new graphics card - a 
> GEforce2, I don't know what Linux's support for that is like but I should 
> imagine it would be supported.  Help with the problem would be appreciated.
> By the way, the internet also works so I was able to have a go on Lynx.  A 
> few questions (sorry) is there a IRC client that runs from the prompt?  How 
> do you enter a URL in Lynx?  Thanks.
> 
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