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:
[snip]
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
--__--__--
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
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.
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/