fc3 on old 7GB HD with 64MB Ram

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:28 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > >
> > > Swap file ".X.err.swp" already exists!
> >
> > This is a leftover file from a previously-crashed editing session. You
> > can just remove the file .X.err.swp
> 
> Love to but have never been avle to find the delete command in bash. Could you 
> tell me what it is?
> 

"rm"  or a common alias for that is "del"

> > > setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> > >  (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 3 11:22:14 2005
> > > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> > >
> > > That's all there is in that file - two default settings. Now lets try
> > > X.out: Totally empty file!
> >
> > That X.err is suspiciously sort; it would normally have much more
> > information after that point.
> 
> in vi i just press the down button and it doesn't go down beyond that - am I 
> doing it right?
> 
> > What video card do you have in this PC and what's in the "Device"
> > section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
> 
> There are several 'device' sections. I'm guessing you want this one:
> 
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier "Videocard"
>  Driver "trident"
>  VendorName "Videocard vendor"
>  BoardName "Trident CyberBlade (generic)"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>  Identify "Monitor0"
>  VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
>  ModelName "Unknown"
>  HorizSync  31.5-37.9
>  VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
>  Option  "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> I haven't checked if these are rigth, but I can't see why they'd be wrong, I 
> had fc2 running fine (remember that the whole point of this is to get fc3 
> running with minimal graphics)
> 
> > Can you run system-config-display? Does it appear to work?
> 
> Nope that killed it. 
> 
> > Paul.
> 
> btw, when I log in it says "You have mail" wtf? I certainly don't - not from 
> any network at least.
> 
> Duncan
>