OK, I called IBM (I'm using an Aptiva 2137-E24). My monitor is SVGA, she said the chipset is ATI (I found more detailed info in Windows, it is an ATI RAGE II + 3D graphic controller); the RamDac she said was 24MB but after looking at the drop down menu (while trying to configure x-windows) I think she was referring to the amount of SDRAM my computer came with; the clockchip she said was an overlay chip and couldn't provide any additional info; the video Ram is 2MB SGRAM. The monitor is a G42 (M/T 6540) color 14 inch crt. So that is the monitor info I don't know if that is enough to go by. The closest chipset to mine seems to be Ati Mach 64 3D Rage II, Internal RAMDAC which I tried and ended up with a black screen. I also noticed when going through the set up of my mouse (it is a PS/2 I set it to /dev/psaux) that by default it sets to a 3 button mouse and I only have two buttons, I couldn't figure out how to change that. I didn't receive any more error messages so I can't add to that. Hope this isn't too convoluted. Thanks, Kent
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to install the GUI for the first time. I have tried it > > twice and failed both times. > > Don't despair, it sometimes takes a while to configure X properly, but > you'll get there. > > Firstly, what information do you have about your computer hardware? > Have you recently bought the computer? You should try and find out > what kind of graphics card it has, what chipset the graphics card uses > etc etc. Sometimes the graphics card is an actual card that is > inserted into the "bus" on the motherboard of your computer. Other > times, the graphics chip is built into the actual motherboard itself. > In either case you need to find out what kind of chipset it is. This > will tell you which xserver to use. The most common type of xserver > that is used is xserver-svga, so it is most likely you will have to > use this one. > > You also need to know what kind of mouse you have. Is it a two button > mouse or a three button mouse? Is it a serial mouse? > > What kind of monitor do you have? > > > the instillation program it tries to bring the the x-windows up but it > > can't and says there was "errono=111" > > What other information does it tell you? It might tell you what chipset > it detected and other information. Does it describe anything else about > the error? > > See what information you can find out, and then get back to this list. > Hopefully either I, or someone else on the list, will be able to help > some more. > > Cheers, > > Mark.
