Linux Problems

[JohnnyGoBoy]

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me? Please assume that I know absolutely nothing about Unix in general, or the command system... Basically I have just purchased a Radeon 9500 graphics card and currently have Windows 2000 running. I have just tried to load Suse Linux 8.1 and it installed correctly, however the setup did not have driver modules for the 9500 and I thus chose a default graphics adapter as the other Radeon drivers did not work. I am now at the command line and cannot get into graphics mode. I can log-in using my username and password but that is as far as I can go. I thought I would be able to get into a windowing environment but it looks like a no-go. I have assumed this to be because of the incorrect drivers but I was forced into this situation by the lack of driver support for my graphics card and 3D acceleration has been disabled. I have downloaded the correct drivers for my hardware and I copied them on to a CDRW, but I know nothing about Unix to be able to start to load the correct drivers in a command line environment and am desperately seeking any help any of you guys can give me!!

 

[danielhozac]

When you downloaded the drivers, did you not get some sort of instructions? //Daniel

 

[JohnnyGoBoy]

Yes but the drivers are still on a cd? Firstly how do I access the dvd-rom to read the drivers? I just wanted to know - is the reason why I don't have the drivers the fact I am in this command-line system, because if it isn't then I can cure my insanity.

 

[ppc386]

First, you will probably need to "mount" the CD drive.
try one of these commands:
[tt]
mount /cdrom
mount /cdrecorder
mount /media/cdrom
mount /media/cdrecorder
[/tt]
If you can get one of the commands listed above to
execute without an error message, then you should
be able to access the drive from that directory.

 

[JohnnyGoBoy]

I am sortof getting there. The only problem is that I saved the drivers on a cdrw and the format is in cdfs using it was done using Windows Xp and the kernel says that it does not support cdfs. I still have the driver on my laptop how can I do it in udf?

Cheers,

John

 

[pavNell]

Try typing startx at the command line, what happens?

 

[JohnnyGoBoy]

I get a message:

"There is no link /va/x11/r6/bin/x to correct xserver binary, please configure the correct x server with sax/sax2, which will create the missing link. i'm aborting now."

i don't know what that means but it don't sound good to me, i am pretty sure it is the graphics card as it is the only unconfigured item in sax2, but their is only choice of Radeon 7500 and loads of Radeon 8500's but they don't work as I have tried them, they don't have 3d accel enabled. i have just used nero to create a udf/iso cdrw with the drivers on, as it complained last time about it being done in cdfs. i am gonna give that a shot with the mount command and see if anything goes.

cheers!!

 

[JohnnyGoBoy]

Well that was a no-go. I put the cdrw in the dvd and put "mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom" and it did not work.

It said: "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE devices where you in fact ise ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?"

I did the same for the cd-rw drive and put cdrecorder instead of cdrom and it still complained. It says: "block device /dev/cdrecorder is write protected, mounting read-only."
then "no medium found."

Anyone know how to get around this one?

 

[mkozusnik]

Try something more like this. If this is the 1st cdrom device (else use /mnt/cdrom2 etc.). The device type might need to be scsi for supermounting. If this works, add it to your /etc/fstab file (making a backup of that fiel first of course) and it will be available next boot under /mnt/cdrom.

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

Good luck --- Mark