video trouble

I seem to have hit upon an inexhaustible fount of obstacles. Here's my
latest - just the highlights.

A week or so ago my SNAP video driver demo expired, so I D/L'ed (after
many tries - a separate story) a specific SNAP driver for my video chip,
and followed the simple instructions. Everything looked fine, the SNAP
splash screen displayed... then a message 'Invalid Scan Frequency', and
the screen went black, and stayed that way.

I finally booted in single-user mode and checked xorg.conf to see if some
parameters were out of whack. They weren't, but selecting known-good va-
lues didn't help. I looked at several other files but couldn't recognize
anything that looked suspicious. Then I D/L'ed the glint driver (for my
3DLabs Permedia 2 chip) and tried to install it, but that failed because
of unresolved dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) and xorg-x11-server-Xorg.
From what I could tell these totalled about 20 MB in size, with no guaran-
tee they were the end of the dependency line.

I know I can re-install yet again, but before I do, is there something
simple I've missed that I should try first? Thanks.

- Dushan Mitrovich

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