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Topic: Problems with boot, help a n00b please

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SaidinUnleashed Offline

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Posted: Nov. 21 2004,04:37

if you are using a shared connection over the network then it should be ready to go out-of -the-box, PPPoe is for DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) connection, i think.

head over to our irc channel at irc.freenode.net #damnsmalllinux

or start a new thread over in the Networking area.

-J.P.

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Posted: Nov. 21 2004,04:51

Blargh! It wasn't fixed! Sorry about my last post saying it was fixed, I thought it was. When it worked I had booted in "failsafe" mode and it prompted me for exactly as you said and I just told it to boot in 1024x768x32 and it booted up. I tried it again under normal booting, and after it prompted me to do that it gave me the same error anyway! I think that the internet didn't work because failsafe mode doesnt attempt to detect much hardware.

Basically, it boots in failsafe, doesn't boot in normal.

It gave me a different error when I booted in "expert" mode:

Code Sample

Xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
Xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

giving up
Xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

Help again with booting up please...

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Posted: Nov. 21 2004,04:58

failsafe uses framebuffer mode, so try that.

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jamesishere Offline

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Posted: Nov. 21 2004,05:05

It worked! For real! It booted and has internet! Thank you so much!

Anyway, on to the next problem... I assume by booting into framebuffer mode there is a noticable reduction of the graphics. Is the problem with AGP or something? I want to boot it normally for best performance.