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Fwd: GX-150 install problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john hewit-morey)
Thu Jun 13 14:09:18 2002
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:05:44 -0400
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From: john hewit-morey <jjmorey@MIT.EDU>
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>To: jjmorey@mit.edu
>Subject: GX-150 install problem
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:52:09 -0400
>From: E Paul Warren <epwarren@MIT.EDU>
>
>Hi John,
>
>
>I have one of the Dell GX-150 machines that purchasing refers to as the
>Athena-Linux machine :
> 1 GHz Pentium 500 Mb ram 20 Gb hard drive built-in ethernet and
> video 3.5 floppy and ide CD-RW.
>
>I bought a 16 Mb nVidia card that the hardware people (W20-000) say will
>work with the Athena-Linux.
>
>I am using a Viewsonic 21PS monitor a Logitech 3 button mouse and a keyboard
>that is run through a KVM switch.
>
>Jim Ray came over with a boot floppy for the install. I gave him the IP
>address
>18.47.0.109. He started the install, ejected the floppy and the installation
>proceeded from the network.
>
>After shutdown and reboot it came up in run level 3. I logged in as root
>and ran Xconfigurator. Xconfigurator detects the monitor and video card
>without a problem. I tell it how much ram, no clock setting and pick
>resolution
>and color depth. When it tries to test the configuration it says that there is
>a problem with the configuration and sends me back to the selection
>process again.
>There is no resolution/color depth combination that will satisfy it.
>
>I tried an ATI Rage video card that I have with the same net result.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Paul Warren
