Mandrake installation problem

[tedh]

I've installed mandrake10.1 but instead of booting up fully it stops and asks for a login. I do this and it logs me in but goes no further. If I type startx it says 'failed to load module"vgahw" (module does not exist,0) screens found, but none have a usable confoguration. Can anyone help I am a really new newbie!

[Schotty]

What graphics card are you using?

[tedh]

[quote author=Schotty link=board=1;threadid=10075;start=0#msg91281 date=1103395233]
What graphics card are you using

S3 Graphics Inc. ProSavage[/quote]

[shebang]

[quote author=tedh link=board=1;threadid=10075;start=0#msg91289 date=1103403190]
[quote author=Schotty link=board=1;threadid=10075;start=0#msg91281 date=1103395233]
What graphics card are you using

S3 Graphics Inc. ProSavage[/quote]
[/quote]

Hey! That's the same card I'm using! I use the "savage" driver. Here's my xorg.conf (the part about the video card).

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "** S3 Savage (generic)                [savage]"
    Driver      "savage"
    #VideoRam    4096
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

[tedh]

What graphics card are you using?

S3 Graphics Inc. ProSavageHey! That's the same card I'm using! I use the "savage" driver. Here's my xorg.conf (the part about the video card).

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "** S3 Savage (generic)                [savage]"
    Driver      "savage"
    #VideoRam    4096
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Thanks for the info. I don't know what to do with it! I've tried a few things but am getting nowhere. Can I get an idiots guide?

[tedh]

Hello is anyone there?

[stryder144]

[quote author=tedh link=board=1;threadid=10075;start=0#msg91501 date=1104177526]
Hello is anyone there?
[/quote]

You can do the following:

type: nano (or pico) xorg.conf
Once that file comes up, scroll down until you see the place that looks like what shebang wrote. Insert what he wrote and then save the file. You should be able to type startx and it should work or you could reboot.

Alternatively, you could type this in:
xorgconfig (I think that's what it's called). That will bring you to a program that will walk you through setting up everything that must be configured for X to work.

Cheers

[tedh]

Typing nano or pico xorg.conf gives me "command not found" !!!
I've used xorgconfig and configured (I think!) the graphics card but it doesn't make any difference - I still get exactly the same error message

[shebang]

[quote author=tedh link=board=1;threadid=10075;start=0#msg91562 date=1104424090]
Typing nano or pico xorg.conf gives me "command not found" !!!
I've used xorgconfig and configured (I think!) the graphics card but it doesn't make any difference - I still get exactly the same error message
[/quote]

Which means, you don't have nano or pico installed. Can you use Vi or Vim ? If so, you can do,

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

?

If you didn't learn how to use vi(m) yet, you can install pico or nano. Mandrake comes with a tool called urpmi

As root, do: urpmi nano (or pico, it doesn't matter).

HTH.. It might ask for one of the CDs....

[tedh]

It just says no package named nano
- same for pico