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
> 
>