Re: Installation hitch

["David Preston" <dpreston-at-netlink.com.au>]

Hi Max,
Yes that was a typo on the fonts error. To give you some further info on
what the system is doing here is an extract of an email to Paul:
Paul,
The problem happens on both disks, I've only tried it on the one computer as
I'm not game to try it on my other pc incase it dose install and wipe off
all of my other files.
The cd rom appears to be an NEC CDR-1300a manufacture date 1996
The chip in the motherboard is an Intel Pentium 100 BP 80502100 SUII0 icomp
index=815
The video card is a Trident tgui9440-1 B48358.1-ts.b
The hard drives are Caviar 2850 wdac2850-00f and a Quantum Fireball CR
The soundcard is only identifiable by Vibra16s Creativetech '94 TC2504-TCQ
9614 printed onthe main chip.
The network card has a lot of chips with YCL printed on them, there is also
a bar code sticker with AH006736 on it.
It has 40 Meg of ram, 32 of which is EDO RAM, not sure what th origional 8
Meg is.
The A drive is a Mitsubishi Electric mf355f-2250mg.
I managed to get this up on the screen:
*probing buses
*finished bus probing
*found nothing
*trying to mount device hdc
*probing buses
*finished bus probing
*found suggestion of card:trident tgui9440 (generic)
*found nothing
*going to insmod raid0.o (path is null)
*going to insmod raid1.o (path is null)
*going to insmod raid5.o (path is null)
*going to insmod fat.o (path is null)
*going to insmod vfat.o (path is null)
this also,
<4> (free: 1705 (80 160 240)
<4> NonDMA:1*4kb 0*8kb 0*16kb 0*32kb 0*64kb  1*128kb 0*256kb 0*512kb
0*1024kb 0*2048kb = 4kb
<4> DMA:2*4kb 1*8kb 1*16kb 0*32kb 0*64kb  1*128kb 0*256kb 1*512kb 0*1024kb
3*2048kb = 6816kb
<4> swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
<4> free swap:         0kb
<4> 10240 pages of ram
<4> 0 pages of BIGMEM
<4> 539 reserved pages
<4> 2099 pages shared
<4> 0 pages swap cached
<4> 3721 pages in file cache
<4> 3721 pages in page cache
<4> 1 pages in page table cache
<4> buffer memory:   2236kb
<4> buffer heads:     2158
<4> buffer blocks:    2122
<4> buffer hashed:    1616
<4>     clean:1616 buffers, 4 used (last=1601), 0 locked, 1500protected, 0
dirty
<4> networking buffers in use      :0
<4> total network buffer allocations    :865
<4> total faile network buffer allocations    :0
<4> ip buffer fragment size   :0
and this,
<6>uniform cdrom driver revision: 2.56
<6>floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44m
<6>fdc 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
<6>md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
<6>raid5: measuring checksuming speed
<4>    8regs   :105.156 MB/sec
<4>    32regs  :   77.343MB/sec
<4>using fastest function : 8regs (105.156 MB/sec)
<4>scsi   : 0 hosts
<4>scsi  : detected total
<4>md.c: sizeof (mdp_supe_t) = 4096
<4>partition check:
<4> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
<4>hdb:
<5>RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
<4>ext2-fs warning:  checktime reached, runninge2fsck is recommended
<4>VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) .
<7>vfs: disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
<7>iso 9660 extensions: microsoft joliet level 1
<7>iso 9660 extensions: RRIP_1991A
<6>raid0 personality registered
<6>raid1 personality registered
<6>raid5 personality registered
and this,
8859-9/75dpi/"
(__)SVGA: pci: trident tgui 9440 rev227, memory -at- 0xe0000000, 0xe02000000
(__)trident chipset version: 0ex3 (tgui9440AGi)(__)SVGA:
(__)SVGA: revision 1
(__)SVGA: using trident programmable clocks
(__)SVGA: chipset:   tgui9440agi
(**)SVGA: video ram: 512k
(**)SVGA: using 8 bpp, depth 8, color weight 666
(__)SVGA: maximum allowed dot clock: 90.000MHz
(**)SVGA: mode "640*480": mode clock = 25.175
(__)SVGA: virtual resolutin set to 640*480
(__)SVGA: generic peedups selected (flags=0*30)
(__)SVGA: using linear frame buffer at 0*0e0000000, size 0MB
(__)SVGA: using graphics engine
(__)SVGA: using 1024 byte display width
(__)SVGA: using XAA (xfree86 acceleration architecture)
(__)SVGA: XAA: solid filled rectangles
(__)SVGA: XAA: screen to screen copy
(__)SVGA: XAA: 8*8 pattern fill
(__)SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (bitmap, TE/NonTE imagetext
TE/NonTEpolytext)
(__)SVGA: XAA: using 8 128*128 areas for pixlemap caching
(__)SVGA: XAA: caching tiles and stipples
(__)SVGA: XAA: general lines and segments


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <Paul.Corner-at-tesco.net>
To: "David Preston" <dpreston-at-netlink.com.au>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: Installation hitch


>
> Hi David
>
> These warnings are quite normal - Not all posssible video configurations
are
> valid for a particular card, so invalid ons are deleted from memory. As
for the
> fonts, only the basic ones are used during the install process, the others
are
> left off to save space - Neither of these should cause the install to lock
up.
>
> What is the spec of your computer, video card, CDROM etc ?
>  Does both CDs give the same problem ?
>  If you use the Alt F3 through to Alt F5, what other error messages do you
see ?
>
> What happens if you press Alt F7 - Does the screen remain blank ?
>
> Have you tried the CD in another computer ?
>
> Regards, Paul.
Regards
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Heise" <mahe-at-bandstahlschnitte.de>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Installation hitch


>
> Hello David,
>
> Modelines:
> I am no expert here, but I seems to me that xfree86 did not find any valid
> modeline for your display. The result is that you can not start X.
> Get your monitor's manual and enter them when asked for hync and vsync
> frequencies.
> And pick a resonable resolution for installation. 800x600 should be enough
to
> get you started. Later on you can always play with Xsetup, xf86config and
xfcfg
> and friends depending on whether you run 3.3.x or 4.x. Backup up a running
> /etc/X11/XF86Config first.
>
> Fontdirectories: As long
> as there are at least some fonts, you can ignore these warnings.
>
> > Smee again,
> > I got the boot floppy made and started the install, the computer ran for
a bit, muttered these few last words, the screen went blank, the CD ran on
for a bit, then everything came to a screaming halt.....
> > (__)svga: mode "1920*1200" needs hsync freq of 9.98KHz. Deleted   (there
was a long list of messages like this with differing numbers)
> > warning: the directory "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/type1/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
> > warning: the directory "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/speedo/" does not
exist. Entry deleted from font path.
> > warning: the directory "/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/100dpl/" does not
exist. Entry deleted from font path.
> > warning: the directory "/usr/sare/fonts/1300059-z/100dpl/" does not
exist. Entry deleted from font path.
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This really should be /usr/share/fonts. Is that your typo are is that a
> bug ?
>
>
> > How might I overcome this situation?
> At least for XFree86 4.x there is a log file in /var/log/ named
XFree86.x.log,
> this should give you the exact reason why X is failing.
> And can you still switch to a different console with ALT-F2, ALT-F3 or
> CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F2 usw ?
> Are the magic-sysrq keys still responsible ? Read
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt first. You might have to enable
them
> first.
> If you can get to a different text console, what is ps -ax telling you ? X
> still running or not ?
>
> Regards
> Max
>
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