Unfortunately, there are many different kinds of video cards in use in PCs, and each one is slightly different. To use Blue on your computer, you will need to get the X Window System up and running, which involves choosing the correct ``X server'' program for your hardware.
If you are not sure about what kind of video card you have, you can check in the documentation that came with your computer, or you can run a program now which tries to probe your system and determine what kind of video card you have. The program prints a screen of warnings, saying that it can cause your system to lock up. If this happens, you will need to reboot and find out what kind of video card you have some other way. Don't panic, however, since the chances of your computer locking up are very small.
The program is run by typing:
SuperProbe
After you find out what kind of card you have, you then need to choose the server that best matches your card. Don't worry if you make the wrong choice, you can always type:
remove_xserver
then follow these steps again to install a new one.
The following choices are available (you will need to remember the filename of your choice, shown at the beginning of each entry in bold):
This is a 256 colour server which supports most Super VGA cards. If you are unsure about what sort of video card you have, try this first.
This is the server for S3 accelerated video cards. If you have a relatively new, high-end video card, there is a reasonable chance that it is based on an S3 chip. Note that this server will not work with video boards based on the S3 Virge chip, however.
Server for S3 Virge accelerated video cards. One example is the Diamond 3D 2000.
Server for Tseng Labs ET4000/W32 and ET6000 based video cards.
Server for the AGX chipset. It is used in Hercules Graphite series and the Orchid Celsius.
Server for the Number Nine Imagine 128 card.
Server for the Weitek P9000 card.
This server is a 16 colour VGA server. It will support most VGA cards, but should be tried only as a last resort if you can't get one of the better servers running.
Monochrome (1-bit) server. Supports a wide variety of graphics cards, but only in monochrome. Try this after xf86vga1.tgz
If none of these seem to match, choose the first one. Once you have chosen one of the above servers, you will need to install it onto your Linux system. Follow the steps below depending on the media from which you are installing.
Firstly you'll need to find the disk that contains the X server you chose above. If your floppy disk drive is ``B:'' under DOS, then substitute ``floppy2'' for ``floppy'' in the following.
Insert the disk into the floppy drive and type
cd /
mount /mnt/floppy
tar xzvf /mnt/floppy/<X server filename>
umount /mnt/floppy
Where <X server filename> is the filename you chose above.
Assuming the files are in the directory C:\BLUEINST, type the following
cd /
tar xzvf /mnt/dos/blueinst/<X server filename>
Where <X server filename> is the filename you chose above.
Type the following:
cd /
tar xzvf /mnt/dos/blueinst/<X server filename>
Where <X server filename> is the filename you chose above.
If you are unable to mount the CD-ROM under Linux, you may have chosen the wrong CD-ROM device in section Hardware configuration above.