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Topic: Install hangs up at "xauth: creating new authority, Installation hangs up

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roberts

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Posted: Feb. 27 2007,16:45

Sounds like a screen resolution problem when trying to start X.
What is the native resolution for your video display device.
Can you boot to runlevel 2

boot: dsl 2

or

boot: dsl xsetup

Try different resolutions

WDef

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Posted: Mar. 05 2007,22:01

A digression sorry, but for future ref:

Quote

By vfat I mean fat16

My understanding is that vfat isn't fat16. It's closer to fat32 but it isn't that either. It's its own beast.

bawbag31

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Posted: April 22 2007,18:41

My installation stops here, too. I am pretty sure it is a case of X failing to start. My laptop is a toshiba R100 with the trident cyberblade xp3 (i think) graphics chip, which doesn't play nice with xorg. I have had ubuntu 6.10 running on this machine - with X issues - but no joy with DSL. I have tried loads of boot and installation methods, with various boot options, but I still get the freeze. Any suggestions yet? I would have for this lovely laptop to be windows only. :-(

humpty

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Posted: April 24 2007,00:46

a long shot, but you could try curaga's tinyx

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=18205

it has a different vesa server (amongst others).

curaga

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Posted: April 24 2007,14:47

I'd say Xtrident...

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