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тАО02-04-2003 12:40 PM
тАО02-04-2003 12:40 PM
Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
I installed Linux 7.3 on HP Pavilion zt1185 laptop with partion. X Server is not starting up. Its running only in textmode. when i use startx, it is not started. looks like i need to modify XFConfig-4 file. Pl. any one help me for this specific laptop (zt1185) what is the configuration. If possible pl. send me your config file. It is really killing me. I have gone mad with this configuration........
thank you very much,
NS
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тАО02-04-2003 01:00 PM
тАО02-04-2003 01:00 PM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
First of all, what graphics adapter is installed on you Pavilion ?
Please post /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
Good luck.
Kodjo
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тАО02-04-2003 01:07 PM
тАО02-04-2003 01:07 PM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
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тАО02-04-2003 04:49 PM
тАО02-04-2003 04:49 PM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
In the meantime you can probably use the VESA framebuffer driver to get XWindows working. Here are a few relevant lines from my (old) /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "VESA driver (generic)"
EndSection
You'll need to use vi or pico to edit your existing /etc/X11/XF86Config file so that it uses a videocard device like that above.
Bruce
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тАО02-05-2003 08:53 PM
тАО02-05-2003 08:53 PM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
and the same problem, but I installed Mandrake and recognises Trident Cyber Blade
that's the one I use now
If you get the answer please acquaint me
Thanks
David
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тАО02-27-2003 03:24 AM
тАО02-27-2003 03:24 AM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
thanks for your help and good luck! :o) peace..
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тАО03-01-2003 11:45 AM
тАО03-01-2003 11:45 AM
Re: Linux Installation on HP Pavilion zt1185 : I gone mad. pl. help
One more piece of info as an amateur in the field of Linux (i'm mainly a windows/dos guy)
Red Hat has an option under custom install to avoid having to do this again where lindows is lacking. You will choose to install the boot loader on the "first sectory of the linux boot / main mount point partition. NOT the "MBR" doing this will allow bootmagic to come up as ususal and you will be able to add your red hat intall from the bmcfg.exe command or if you retain windows, you can do it in there to. in most cases lilo wants to take over the mbr if you don't instruct it otherwise. But I did encounter an issue with mandrake 9.0. Same occurance but I had to reformat my hard drive because it some how probed it as a 50 gig drive and it trashed the partition table without any successful fixing. I have a Drive Image Pro backup of my system updated regularly, so it was easy to restore my XP in this case. But "DO NOT DELETE" your XP, it is not trashed, just the boot record with linux is changing the structure that NT kernals want to boot from as specified in the boot.ini of the windows xp root dir. Bootmagic will do the trick but if you still have linux on there, you may still encounter a problem do to the boot.ini file and will need to gain access to it so you can modify the partition it boots from. If you need any more help regarding this, send off an e-mail to me. my direct e-mail is mrvoice@hotmail.com checked daily and will be happy to help someone who is going through what I did! But I'm all good now. -Scott