[Sderby] still having problems

[astraguy]

Hi Russ ,
I am not sure if this link will help you,
http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/chiplist.php


Regards Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: Russ
To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: [Sderby] still having problems


i tried this,
Oh dear, looks like your box may not have been running the open source
NVIDIA driver.

There is probably a Mandrake specific X server configuration program
that you can invoke from the command line (DOS prompt. A standard
program is available it is called xf86config, but it is rather
unfriendly to say the least.

What we can do is have a look and see if you have a backup configuration
file.

Login as root
type in:

cd /etc/X11

type:
ls
the main configuration file is called XF86Config
look for any files called something like XF86Config.save or something
like that, maybe XF86Config.bak.
firstly let's rename the original file:
mv XF86Config XF86Config.bad
this will rename the file to XF86Config.bad.

Now lets copy the backup file, assuming it is called .bak we can use the
command:

cp XF86Config.bak XF86Config

This will restore the saved copy.

You can try and start X-windows with the command:

startx

and got this,
i found these XF86config, XF86config-4, XF86config-4.old, XF86config.old
i tried to rename the XF86config to.old and got this,
mv: cannot stat. `XF86config`, no such file. so i tried it in /xdm can it
didnt like that also i tried to rename some of the other XFconfig file
listed above to .old with no go.
and that were im at now.

             Russ