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Topic: Off to a bad start - whole lotta nuthin :(, 'taint workin

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,02:40

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you passed an undefined node number (wait 30 seconds)

Your vid/monitor is probably not of a "regular" type, and you'll probably have to pass one of the vga=### codes upon bootup (see wiki on cheatcodes, or press F2/F3 on start). You use these when you see the penguin come up.

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would it create that file?? where would it be stored

That depends on which directory you are currently in. From dsl@tty1[dsl]$ I can assume you're in the default homedir of user 'dsl' - that's /home/dsl. You can use `pwd` to find where you currently are.

Modifying your hdd's MBR is up to you - if you don't like the idea of it, you can always use a bootcd/floppy.

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,04:35

well guys....damn small linux has left me pretty damn frustrated......

seems like with linux it's ALWAYS major drama with the friggin video ! ! !

I tried all the options presented with F2 and F3 at bootup to avoid the 'you passed an undefined node number', only to be followed by the 'X10 fatal IO error'

the ONLY thing I could get to work was "dsl vga=normal"

I have a diamond stealth video card, I think it's 2 meg or 4 meg, VESA, works fine in truecolor / hicolor modes in whingdoze 98, DOS, and I got it working half ass in slackware 7 (another ordeal !!!!)

so, starting with dsl vga=normal the only 2 options that worked were:

4 bit color depth
8 bit color depth

I tried 4 bit first, despite how horrible it looked, I was able to find my way around, and was impressed by what I had seen, and it the ppp setup tool looked like it was gonna be okay....

so I tried the 8 bit color depth....this time I got the penguin wallpaper, which was very grainy and horrible looking, and dillo browser with the getting started html file came up, very hard to read, dark purple lettering on a black background....what is up with THAT ???????

tried going back to the 4 bit color depth - got the ppp configurater set up with my ISP's particulars, and tried to connect, nothing but script failure. I know what my settings are, as I have done a lot of ppp tcp/ip packet driver stuff in DOS internet apps. DSL wouldn't detect my modem, but I know it's on com 1 anyway, works fine with my other linux distros, DOS , and whingdoze 98. I was hoping to at least connect and give one of the browser a spin and try the telnet client to at least go to some telnettable BBS's I frequent....

anyway....I've spent a lot of time on this and am very frustrated, unless somebody knows something I'm missing to where I can get a decent screen, I'm gonna deltree c:\knoppix and don't see any point in making a /hda4 partition for this......

I sure wish I could get this going, as I'm always looking for an excuse to not have to use windows ! ! ! !

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,04:44

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Your vid/monitor is probably not of a "regular" type, and you'll probably have to pass one of the vga=### codes upon bootup (see wiki on cheatcodes, or press F2/F3 on start).

Thanks.... I just now saw your post. I did try several of the vga=### codes to no avail Now that you mention it, I did see 'cheat codes' in the wiki section, I'll check that out. Pardon me if my other post sounded negative in any way, I'm just tired / frustrated and it's late. Thanks again for the help guys!

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,12:23

G'day Westburian

From a terminal window run xsetup.sh and have a play with the video modes and depths until you find something acceptable. I'd probably start with 800x600 16 bit, then 24 and finally 32 then try increasing to 1024x768, etc.

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,13:52

For xsetup, you can also pass that during bootup as well - try around the setting like how Trog Dog suggested. Try changing the X server if your display only looks messed up in X (gui mode). You may also want to try booting up with th fb codes.

For your modem, make sure it's recognized and the driver's loaded before trying to configure it... I haven't used the ppp config stuff before, but most of the time the problem is about the driver. Which one do you have?

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