[lug] getting KRUD up

[D. Stimits]

"Kenneth D. Weinert" wrote:
> 
> Well, I've managed to install the KRUD distro I picked up on Thursday, now
> have just two problems.
> 
> I'm looking for hints on where to look for solutions.
> 
> 1) X is hosed - in fact, X is *so* hosed that it screws up my alternate
> text terminals - I get just blinking colored boxes on them, nothing
> recognizable at all.

Don't know the answer to the rest. But if you can login to a terminal,
during the blinking, and type this as root:
init 3

Then you'll go to text mode and it won't try to keep respawning X.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

If I type blindly I can do whatever I need to. The X
> display that comes up is sort of recognizable (ie, images are recognizable)
> but I have blinking lines, etc. The card/monitor are just as I have them on
> windows so I'm not sure what I've done wrong here. I have manually inputted
> the H and V resolution (from the monitor manual) and the card (3Dfx Voodoo
> Banshee, 16M) is properly recognized. I've even re-run Xconfigurator to no
> avail. Oh, one note: I was able to correctly use the graphical install.
> 
> 2) I have (as you can tell) @Home cable - right now it is hooked in to my
> USB port. Can I use it that way or do I need to get a NIC and plug it in
> that way. A pointer on where to look to get the network stuff configured
> (including dhcp) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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