[UCLA-LUG] booting and video problems

[Mark Fasheh]

For the compaq quickrestore thingy, there is a line in your autoexec.bat
file you need to remove.  I honestly forget which one it is, but by
looking at the paths and filenames, you should be able to turn it off.

Another way to boot your system without lilo, is to make a boot disk.
This way, all you'll need to do is pop the disk in, and reboot.  Do this
at the prompt (as the root user) by typeing:
$ /sbin/mkbootdisk 2.2.12-20

AFAIK the i810 chipset is supported by Xfree86 3.3.6 -- no 3-D though :(
You might want to download the latest RPMS for this version of X.  One way
is to d/l them from RedHat's ftp site, under the 6.2 beta.

Can you let us know what type of Network card you have?  In windows, you
can usually tell this by right-clicking on My computer, and looking at
'Network Adapters' under device configuration.

Hrm.  Netscape is one of the more unstable, and poorly performing programs
I run, so you're not alone there.  Is your sound configured?  If not, try
typeing the command
$ rm -rf /tmp/.esd
Sometimes the ESound Daemon doesn't load, but decides not to clean up
after itself -- Gnome then hangs waiting for a connection from esd. Also,
if you're more of a newbie, than you might want to use KDE, which is IMHO
more polished, and very friendly to the newbie (not to mention their kick
ass file manager).
	--Mark


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Mark James Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
http://www.exothermic.org

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Kevin Wada wrote:

>      I had linux installed at the install fest last week and a couple problems weren't able to be resolved. When I boot up, the computer is supposed to ask whether to boot win 98 or linux. However, after linux was installed this never happened because lilo (i think that's what it's called) wasn't installed properly. In order to get into linux now i must boot up win 98, shut down into ms dos mode, and load linux through dos. This is a pain and i was hoping there is someway i can get the computer to prompt me at boot up which OS to load.
>      Also, when i boot win 98 a strange screen appears that says Compaq Quick Restore: Ready to format first hard drive petitions. I just have to hit escape to get past the screen but it scares me every time i see it because i think it's going to reformat my hard drive if i accidently push the wrong button one day. This screen started appearing after linux was installed so please tell me if u know what i should do.
>      I was told at the install fest that my video adapter is not supported in the version of linux that was installed. I have an Intel 810 chipset on my motherboard that acts as the video card. How do i install the proper drivers for it so i can get my resolution past 640 x 480.
>     I also can't connect to the internet when in linux. I guess my network card also doesn't have the right drivers or something.
>     However, my biggest complaint is that linux is slow! My gawd, it takes at least 20 seconds to load minesweeper and over a minute to load netscape! I know its got to be better than this but right now i'm really unimpressed. I'm sure it's not running optimally since my configuration is so crappy right now but its speed as of now is terrible.
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to like linux but right now it's ugly and slow and a pain to load up! I wasn't able to go to the newbie night either so i'm really screwed as to knowing how to use this OS. Sorry this e-mail is so long but i really need help.
>                                          Thanks in advance,
>                                          Kevin
> 
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