I too am running RedHat 8.0 on an old machine the needs the vesa driver to run the graphics card. At least it told you that you needed the vesa driver. Mine recognized the card, but wouldn't work. It took me a couple hours to figure out that XFree86 4.x did not actually include the driver for my card, and I had to switch to vesa. One tip is that many of these old cards are not directly supported by XFree86 4.x, but if you downgrade to XFree86 3.x it may have the driver for your card. The nice thing about SuSE is that the installer will install 3.x if 4.x does not have the correct driver. You may want to try this. As for the lock ups, I have not had that problem but I would suggest looking through /var/log/XFree86.0.log and /var/log/messages to see if they give you any clues as to why your system is locking up. On an old machine you may also want to use a lighter window manager like Window Maker instead of KDE or Gnome.
Good luck, Jesse On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:38, Evan Brown wrote: > Hi > > First time poster and Linux Newbie. I've installed redhat 8 on a machine > that will be used as a file server and developement webserver. I'm > having some trouble with the machine freezeing up when I'm using the > gnome or kde desktops. The machine was a pain to install in the first > place as we bought it on the cheap and just using built in components ie > video card. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7VKMLS with VIA > KM266+VT8233A CE chipset. I originally tried to install RH 7.2 but the > Xserver wouldn't work at all with the on board video, and 8 says its a > VESA generic card. I haven't been able to find any drivers for it on the > net, only winXP/2k/98 drivers. I mean it works now under RH 8 but with > the intermitant total lock up which requires a total power off and then > disk integrity check. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do yo > possibly stop these freeze ups. Oh I've upgraded the kernel using the RH > update service thing twice and its current version is 2.4.18-27.8.0 on > an i686. > > Thanx, > Evan Brown -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
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