[ale] still more building a new box woes

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:33, Pete Hardie wrote:
Since the chipset is NVidia, use the nvidia drivers. They are not
opensource, but they work fantastically. 

To get a _basic_ X running try "X -configure". That will test and
autoconfig and barebones XF86config file and tell you where it put it.
Be sure you set /etc/inittab to be a runlevel that is NOT X, for RedHat
based stuff, run level 3 is text, 5 is X, for Slack it's 2 and 4
respectively.
> I'm assuming some X problem, or a bad monitor specification.  I'll try a low-res 
> setup (640x480) tonight just to see if it's one of those things.  The video 
> chipset ia nVidia - anyone know of problems of this nature for that set?
> 
> TIA,
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