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butters
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:47 am Post subject: XFree86 -configure fails after emerge xfree |
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I had the same problem when I installed the binary XFree86 distribution. Now that I have enough disk space to complete the emerge xfree, I removed that failed installation and did emerge xfree. After it finished two days later (P100/64MB system), I did XFree86 -configure to start setting things up. Screen went blank for about 10 seconds, then the PC speaker started beeping quickly for another 5-10 seconds, then the console came back up. There were a ton of unresolved symbols errors followed by a fatal server crash that terminated the process. This is the same problem I had with the binary distribution. Why does this happen?
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dcstimm
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hate to say it, but I dont see hardly anything that could be the problem other than your current hardware.
I hate to say it but, Try upgrading..
sorry, but if you want a good distro that runs on slow hardware try slackware... |
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dcstimm
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| soon gentoo will have a stage 4 which will have X and such, but even then it might not run on old hardware because gentoo usaually compiles things for i686. |
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mksoft
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 9:32 am Post subject: |
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What graphics card are you using 
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| dcstimm wrote: | | sorry, but if you want a good distro that runs on slow hardware try slackware... |
The insane machine thread and delta407's worst hardware thread would beg to differ with you. I have Gentoo running self-bootstrapped from stage 1 on a Pentium 133. butters, please do not give up.
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