[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Dr Chris Owens]

Mark

    Many thanks for this, I see your logic and have tried increasing the
colour resolution to 32bit True Colour (there isn't a 24 bit colour option)
but alas to no effect. The result is a blank (dark ) screen with a couple of
white underscores at the top. These change position as the screen size
(and/or colour res) chosen from the installer post installation config menu
is altered. In fact worse than this is that I have not been able to regain
the infamous "grey blue mish/mash" at all and certainly not by selecting the
choices Mandrake makes.

    I guess the installation is otherwise complete since I have been able to
get and use Root and User Command lines but no GUI. Is a clue the fact that
startx  from the Root or User command line returns an error message as
follows:

Cmd Line:                [root @ localhost root]#
Enter:                        startx
System response:   1. Uses and writes authority files
                                  2. execve failed for /etc/X11/x (errno 2)
                                  pause
                                  3. giving up
                                  4. xinit: No such file or directory (errno
2): unable to connect to X Server
                                  5. xinit: No such process (errno 3):
Series error

or does this arise simply because the graphics interface has not been
properly configured.

Sorry to be such a pest but any other suggestions welcome

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space


> Dr Chris Owens said:
> >    Many thanks for your continuing interest. In response
> >
> > Make: Hi-Grade Computers
> > Model:     Badge:- Ultinote AS8400,     Label:- L8400 Series Notebook
> > No 17NG018024
> > Processor Spec:        Intel x86, Family 6, Model 8, Stepping 10, 320
> > MB RAM Monitor:    Plug-nPlay Monitor on S3 Inc Savage/MX w/MV 1024x768
> > 16 bit High Colour
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> The graphics card you have is supported by the savage driver which the
> Mandrake installer selected for you.  What I can see is that your display
> resolution and colour depth imply a 4MiB video memory not 8MiB (1024x768
> at 2 bytes per pixel with double buffering is a shade over 3MiB used).
> In Windows can you check that in the device properties of the video card.
> Alternatively, you can try to up the colour depth to 24 (or 32) bit (using
> the same resolution) to test that theory?
> Thanks
> Mark
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> > To: "County of Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
> > <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:13 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space
> >
> >
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> >     Am still a bit stuck in getting the display right. The best I
> >> >     have
> >> > managed is to get a few scattered icons, some on top of each other,
> >> > some that are draggable leaving a trail of ghost images, others
> >> > inactive, lots of grey blue mish/mash which we saw last night but
> >> > now with a readable message "KDE is up and running"in amongst it - a
> >> > small advance but LINUX is still not usable from a graphic
> >> > interface.
> >>
> >>
> >> >     I think I need a path from the grub prompt to the root command
> >> > line and then a way to get into changing the resolution and monitor
> >> > settings in Drakx rather as Mark was doing at the end of the
> >> > evening. This would save having to re-install Mandrake 10.0 from
> >> > scratch in order to get to the post install 'Configuration Screen'
> >> > where I have to date been trying to get the right settings. Would I
> >> > be right and does anyone have any ideas.   In summary it looks as
> >> > though everything has installed OK but I can't get access to a
> >> > usable interface to change the display settings so that the whole
> >> > becomes viewable.
> >>
> >> Could you find out what the make and model of the laptop is please.
> >> >From that we should be able to find the correct settings without
> >> >going
> >> through to much trial and error.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
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