[newbie] Re: mandrake 10.1 on hp pavilion 7935

[Thomas Backlund]

Michael Dancy wrote:
So I installed mandrake 10.1 on my HP Pavilion 7935..
AMD 1300 256mb ram.. the usual crappy hp machine.
 

It has onboard memory and I can’t seem to find a ‘video card’ in the 
selection that will work.

I keep getting an error and when I run the test to check it out.. it 
just blanks out.

Any ideas?
 

Since I blew out the proprietary info on the C drive..  and cracked it 
open.. I can’t tell what kind of card it is.

Even the HP site isn’t specific.
 

I’m not sure if this is going straight to a forum or to someone.. so any 
advice would be appreciated.

The HP docs here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?cc=us&docname=bph06799&lc=en
tells you it's integrated graphics, so you need to check out the
chipset, wich is VIA KL133.
If you then check out the Via site here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=40&STypeID=3
you will see that it's the chipset also known as Apollo KL133
If you look here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=68&P=5
you will see that the integrated graphics is named:
"KPLE integrated graphics" and the Northbridge is VT8364...
Unfortunately here the fun seems to stop as I can't really find
any proof that the xorg will support your card with any specific driver,
but you should be able to use the standard VESA driver...
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Regards
Thomas

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