[ltp] X Dead on A21p after RH 9.0

[Rob Bell]

Here's a follow-up on my situation:

Thanks to those who offered advice.  The consensus seemed to be that 
some X-related packages were horked.  It was just as easy for me to do a 
new RH9 install than locate/update the packages, so that's what I did. 
I now have a working X environment.  I'm not thrilled with RH9's 
upgrade/install process.  Obviously the upgrade caused me headaches, but 
I also had to do two full, fresh installs before things worked.  On the 
first fresh install it errored out while trying to create a boot floppy 
and then failed to boot Linux (no init= specified...).  Next try was 
100%.  I guess third time's the charm for me.  To offer some praise: 
the installer dialog and menus are excellent.  Very easy to perform 
customizations to the configuration being installed.

Thanks again!
Rob

RobDBell@netscape.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had a nicely working RH 7.3 installation on a ThinkPad A21p that 
> included a happily functioning X environment.  After what appeared to be 
> a smooth upgrade to RH 9.0 I can no loger start X.  When I run 'startx' 
> I get several errors:
> 
>     (EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does not exist, 0)
>     (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0)
>     LG.PHILIPS LP150U1-A2
>     Color, Single, TFT
>     (EE) R128(0): Virtual height (0) is too small for the hardware (min 
> 128)
>     (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> 
> The A21p uses the ATI Rage 128 Mobility graphics chip, with a 15" 
> 1600x1200 screen.
> 
> I've tried numerous other XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files, both from 
> other working configurations I've had and from ones I downloaded. 
> Absolutely nothing starts up - every one has these same errors.  This 
> leads me to believe that there is another file damaged, missing, or 
> incorrectly configured, but I don't know enough about X to know what it is.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
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