Mandrake 7.1 install with my monitor.

[fecal-matter]

I tryed to run the Mandrake install, and as soon as the install booted up my screen went all distorted as if I went into a resolution that my monitor could no handle in windows, it is hard to explain what it looked like, but it was not visible enough to make out what was on the screen. My monitor is an AcerView 34T uvga, 15inch, Please help me on this, because i really want to try mandrake.

thanks
Kevin

[Iceman]

Fecal:

Sure wish you had a less offensive screen name.

Anyway, my guess is you have a VGA monitor.

So, reinstall from the MDK CD, but press F1 and type "vgalo" at the prompt. No quotes, of course.

Cheers,

Iceman

[Iceman]

Fecal:

Sure wish you had a less offensive screen name.

Anyway, my guess is you have a VGA monitor.

So, reinstall from the MDK CD, but press F1 and type "vgalo" at the prompt. No quotes, of course.

Cheers,

Iceman

[fecal-matter]

Sorry for my screen name, but i have had this forever, and i use it for everything. But anyway, i made the bootdisk and booted from that and everything worked fine, thanks for your help anyway.

Kevin

[mjgcny]

Hi Iceman,

I have a problem almost identical (almost...) I had posted in a differant area with my question, so here goes in this area...

My monitor would not be recognised even though I had listed it as a generic, doing 800x600 resolution (future power monitor). I have tried several installs and everytime, when selecting monitor, I select the 800x600 generic and then go through res. find from the pop-up box, then get a blue box warning of "over range". I am unable to get thru the entire install and get error warning after the prompt is entered in the console for "startX". It cannot find Xserver.

I've tried every single 800x600 gen. setting and nothing works so far. I too want to get 7.1 mandrake working. Any solutions? Thanks.

[Morbeious]

Help Help, Please, my screen is small and it wont Size up.. lol...
Specs:
Tried: Drake 7.0/7.1, RH6.0/.1/7.0, SuSe 6.1

Current O/S: Drake 7.1
OmniBook Xe3
Graphics: S3 Savage/IX
Network Card: Accon EN1207F
Xwindows: XFree 3.x

1st Problem: Screen Size...

Ok, I've found out I can use the SMI drivers for this laptop under Xfree 3.x, the only problem i have is getting it to go 800x600 or even highier, I'm stuck in 640x and can't get out, I've always had this problem on laptops. I've tried the good old, Alt+ctrl -/+ and I know to use the Keypad. Can someone please tell me anything else I should know, to get this to go full screen??


2nd Problem: Network card drivers?

I've tried using the Reltek drivers, with the accon card, somthing I found here on the forum, that didnt work, lol.. if anyone has gotten this builting network card to work, please let me know..

Thanks, for any help..

[piix4]

I may have a poxy monitor too , emm
why not try the third last option in the install , I think it might be interlaced 1024x768 or even if you want I don't know if it has the option svga @ 1024x768? You may want to check out if you graphics card is capable of 32bbp , could it be that you have a 24 bit card and are trying to run it @ 32b?