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| Sandra M. Schock 2002-11-28, 4:24 pm |
| I bought a Compaq D315 business desktop that came loaded with Windows XP Pro. Ok no problems there I thought...it has a NVIDIA nForce 220 chipset and a 1.67 Athlon XP CPU. I planned on installing Redhat 8.0 and using it as a server. When I installed the Linux it would not let me install graphically, only text based, and when I ran startx it gave me fatal XFree86 errors. So that means my chipset was not supported. I looked it up to confirm. I tried installing the new chipset drivers that were supposed to allow me support on Redhat 8.0 but I am still not able to use X-Windows. All the text based commands and apps work great but the GUI - forget it. It doesn't seem like any distro supports this chipset. Can anyone tell me if they know of one that will work?
Thank you! 
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| Sybren Stuvel 2002-11-28, 5:24 pm |
| In article <mkwF9.1017$ic6.291@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>, Sandra M. Schock wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Don't do this - post plain text only. No HTML, no multi-part.
> it has a NVIDIA nForce 220 chipset
> All the text based commands and apps work great but the GUI - forget it
Have you installed the latest Detonator drivers from www.nvidia.com?
Sybren
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-11-28, 10:24 pm |
| Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:58 am will from hence forward be known as the day Sandra
M. Schock blabbered:
> I planned on installing Redhat 8.0 and using it as a server. When I
> installed the Linux it would not let me install graphically, only text
> based, and when I ran startx it gave me fatal XFree86 errors.
Wait!
You want to use a laptop as a server?
You want a GUI running on a server?
What are you doing?
> So that means my chipset was not supported. I looked it up to confirm.
Well perhaps posting the error message maybe a start, could it maybe be that
your laptops mouse is not being detected -- usually the biggest source of
Linux errors on laptops is the mouse (well for startx anyway).
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Registered Linux User 282072
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| Sandra M. Schock 2002-11-29, 10:25 am |
| I never said it was a laptop smartass. Its a Compaq desktop.
"Joe Fredrickson" <joe@volutin.net> wrote in message
news:_aBF9.26334$hg1.71728@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:58 am will from hence forward be known as the day Sandra
M. Schock blabbered:
> I planned on installing Redhat 8.0 and using it as a server. When I
> installed the Linux it would not let me install graphically, only text
> based, and when I ran startx it gave me fatal XFree86 errors.
Wait!
You want to use a laptop as a server?
You want a GUI running on a server?
What are you doing?
> So that means my chipset was not supported. I looked it up to confirm.
Well perhaps posting the error message maybe a start, could it maybe be that
your laptops mouse is not being detected -- usually the biggest source of
Linux errors on laptops is the mouse (well for startx anyway).
--
remember this is the sequence of events, in no particular order
Registered Linux User 282072
<www.volutin.net -- everything irrelevant>
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| Paul Lutus 2002-11-29, 12:24 pm |
| On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:46:22 +0000, Sandra M. Schock wrote:
> I never said it was a laptop smartass. Its a Compaq desktop.
Because you are so totally new at this Usenet business (first post: August
11th this year), I will ask that you not top-post, and learn how to use
your newsreader, in particular learn how to quote the text to which you
are replying.
And as to this from your header: "X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook
Express", are you sure you want to posture as a Linux expert, given the
fact that you are running Windows and its crippled newsreader?
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Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com
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| Bob Martin 2002-11-29, 3:34 pm |
| > "Sandra M. Schock" wrote:
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> I bought a Compaq D315 business desktop that came loaded with Windows XP Pro.
> Ok no problems there I thought...it has a NVIDIA nForce 220 chipset and a 1.67
> Athlon XP CPU. I planned on installing Redhat 8.0 and using it as a server.
> When I installed the Linux it would not let me install graphically, only text
> based, and when I ran startx it gave me fatal XFree86 errors. So that means
> my chipset was not supported. I looked it up to confirm. I tried installing
> the new chipset drivers that were supposed to allow me support on Redhat 8.0
> but I am still not able to use X-Windows. All the text based commands and
> apps work great but the GUI - forget it. It doesn't seem like any distro
> supports this chipset. Can anyone tell me if they know of one that will work?
>
> Thank you!
Probably no distro out of the box. Nvidia does have drivers, and a page with
instructions.
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0248
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Bob Martin
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