compaq deskpro - the sequel; i have a viewsonic e771 monitor connected to the deskpro. i checked viewsonic's specs and found horizontal range 30-70khz vertical range 50-120hz both are what rh 70 installs and it does find the 771 although it is called e771-2 by rh. video card is a matrox mellinnium g200(generic) which is correct. i am using 16 bit 800x600. the pop sound is more like the monitor shutting off than any sort of safety device. the reason i want to install graphics is that i want to use webmin for configuration of samba apache etc. i am assuming that graphics has to be installed to use webmin. any other suggestions based on the info. above would be appreciated. thanks jim s. wlug-request@mail.wlug.org wrote:

Message: 1 To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] compaq deskpro From: Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> Date: 17 May 2001 15:00:50 -0400 Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org

Jim Stith <stith2@earthlink.net> writes:

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In addition to what other people are saying, I have to ask -- why would you want to install X on a server?

Save disk space, save memory, and keep things simple. If the console works, just use it. :)

-- Josh Huber

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:30:32 -0400 From: doug waud <douglas.waud@umassmed.edu> To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] compaq deskpro Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org

Hi

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everything loads fine but when the system tries to go into x and give me a login screen, the monitor makes a poping sound and the screen goes blank.

As several responses have indicated already, you are probably driving the monitor at the wrong frequency. This can be very dangerous (you can cook a monitor this way) but perhaps not in your case since that "popping sound" is probably the monitor being new enough to cut itself off when mistreated.

In any case, what you have to do is find out the allowable hsync and vsync frequencies of the monitor. Since the computer is second hand (I assume) you may not have the manual. In that case, look on the monitor for some sort of manufacturer/model number and feed that into google. With luck and a bit of poking around you should be able to find a spec sheet or table and get the hsync and vsync frequencies (I found Compaq was not too shabby when faced with the same issue with my daughter's computer and a Linux install). Once you have those values, you can tell the install program what to use (I don't use Red Hat, so I can't give you chapter and verse here; XF86Config is more generic but a tad cryptic. If you have to go the latter route, feel free to touch base with me (probably directly to save traffic to the whole group) and we can, if necessary, walk through the various steps in XF86Config.

Incidentally, I vaguely remember that my daughter's Compaq (a Presario) had a bastard video chip which confused SuSE 6.3 but which 7.0 was able to deal with. I suspect your box is old enough that this will not be a problem.

Finally, Compaq is good about providing manuals. I went into google and entered compaq deskpro and got to the Compaq site

which, in turn, had a link to a downloadable pdf manual.

I suspect you may have to be a bit more specific as to model of compaq deskpro but you should be able to get the equivalent for your particular box. Ditto for monitor. This way you can give the install program hints as to both the video chip and the sync frequencies.

Hope this helps a little.

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i have been going through the faq's and the only thing i have found out is that compaq did some strange things around the mbr.

I don't think this is anywhere near the mbr.

doug

PS I agree with John Huber's point that X is unnecessary (and perhaps even in the way) on a server. However, I can also understand why you might want to get X going simply because, like Mount Everest, it's there :-)

-- Douglas R Waud 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/