Subject: Re: Mandrake Issue
From: Adam Elkins (LinuxRobot@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 00:32:32 AKST
Well, I installed a Radeon 7200, it's flawless now...I love it.
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:02 pm, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I had that happen on RH too on 7.0 with one video card I was trying. X
> would lock up if I attempted testing the config, but if I skipped
> testing, it ran fine. RH had an errata on it.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 08:00, civileme wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:39 am, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > > While installing Mandrake 8.1 on this new box I built,
> > > it install all the way up to the video settings, I
> > > choose the moniter I'm using, the res and color depth,
> > > click OK, screen goes blank and this pops up:
> > >
> > > /tmp/imm.o: init_module: No Such Device
> > > /tmp/ppa.o: init_module: No Such Device
> > >
> > >
> > > any guesses here? I might have somethng to do on
> > > Friday after all...
> > >
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> > Those messages are not unusual, and certain rigs will freeze under
> > testing but run fine afterwards (matter of strictness in the setup which
> > is somewhat relaxed during install to assure detection).
> >
> > If you got that far in installing, unless you were looking at very low
> > resolution screens all the way, (color/theme bar in lower left corner
> > three parts instead of four), you can always use FBDev as a fail-safe, at
> > 1024x768 in 16-bit color.
> >
> > Civileme
> > civileme@mandrakesoft.com
> > Mandrakesoft INC Altadena & Montreal
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> >
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