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- From: kuan@dms.agames.com (Frank Kuan)
- Subject: please help newbie with SLS, ati-ultra, and X
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.203056.731@dms.agames.com>
- Organization: AGC
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:30:56 GMT
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- I'm a newbie. Just got the new 25 disk distribution SLS release of
- Linux. I have an ATI ultra with 1 meg vram, 16 meg ram, 200 meg maxtor.
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- I installed linux successfully on a 50 meg partition. I then ftp'd the
- 8514.new driver, and followed the instructions in readme.2 to the letter.
- When I try to start X, it recognizes the driver immediately, but the
- screen just goes black. I did the installment of the other font set
- too... What am I doing wrong? I even unplugged my soundblaster in case
- that was conflicting with my video card.
-
- I have dos as a 50meg hda1, os2 as a 50 meg hda2, and linux as a 50 meg hda3.
- I have boot manager set up for os2, and I created the linux partition with
- fdisk under os2, as the faq recommended.
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- - Frank
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