Have you tried manually specifying your video card? (no auto-detection). Also, when you first boot to the CD, instead of pressing Enter, press F1 and type "expert". On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 15:03, DCsk8r34 at aol.com wrote: > Hello, I have Mandrake Linux 8.1 on my machine with Windows 98 also. When I > go through the installation of Linux it all goes good untill configuring the > color for xwindows. After I pick the colors and settings for my monitor I > click "ok". After that it goes to a black screen that says: > > "insmod:a module named scsi_mod already exists > /tmp/imm.o:int_module:no such device > /tmp/ppa.o:int_module:no such device" > > After that my computer freezes and I have to restart. Linux still loads but > not in xwindows like it is supposed to. I log into root then at the prompt I > type: "startx". When I hit enter I get a message saying: > > "xauth: creating new authority file /root/.xauthority > xauth:creating new authority file /root/.xauthority > > Execve failed for /x11/x (errno 2) > giving up. > xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2):Unabe to connect to x server > xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error" > > My computer is a custom made 800mhz duron, 20 gig hd, 256mb ram, it has a > Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter, SupraMax 56k PCI modem, AdvanceSys > PCI SCSI Host Adapter, I also have a CD Burner with my computer. I have tryed > installing Linux 4 times and it has the same problem everytime. Im new to > Linux so getting xwindows running is pretty important. Any help is greatly > appreciated, Thanks. > -Derek > >