Hi all
As I told you earlier, I booted mandriva 2009 x86-64 but obtained a blank screen with just a cursor.
ctrl+alt+F1 and others worked so that I was able to log in to the system in text mod and GUI was not starting at all.
On some advice I saw logs and got this error
Failed to load module "via"
(Simmilar problems in other distros too indicates it is a driver bug)
so I searched google and replaced šviaš in Xorg.config with švesaš externally (i.e. from another linux distribution)
When after that I booted mandriva 2009 I again saw blank screen with a mouse pointer this time.
Thankfully, ctrl+alt+backspace yeilded result and I was now able to see the login screen.
So I logged in and everything was great except some issues
1. I am unable to set the correct refresh rate for my system.
2. performance problem. maybe due to vesa but what can I do?
3. As I edited Xorg.config externally the control center still thinks that my card is via.
4. Can anyone tell me how to file the bugs? I have a file named report.bug.gz in my root directory which shows some errors.
Everything else is great
Good style of KDE but I think theme is not so good.
Installed very fast almost in 30 mins with all desktop environments and other packages except servers.
Boots very fast in less than 10 seconds from grub to login screen.
Now I think I will try the via driver once again coz now I know the solution and will play with it a bit.
Ya and the install.log also showed some problems which I was unable to understand.
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