[wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Fri Apr 4 13:05:18 NZST 2003


Its pretty hard to go wrong with Mandrake - take the defaults. It (for me
anyway) has always
done things correctly, detected hardware, etc.
You are not running some exotic, bleeding edge video card, are you? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rose McGillicuddy [mailto:rmcgillicuddy at xtra.co.nz]
> Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 12:03
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!
> 
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> 
> > Login as root, and then enter 'grep "(EE)" /var/log/XFree86.0.log'
> >
> > That should tell you what the problem is.
> >
> This gave me the same as before.
> "(WW) Warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown, (EE) No
> devices detected."
> 
> Would it be easier to do a complete reinstall?  If so how do 
> I make sure X
> is installed?
> 
> Thanks
> Rose
> 
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