On Wednesday, 20. March 2002 21:46, Dutch wrote: > 2 problems here. > > 1. I have a dell inspiron 4100. It has the ATI Radeon card in it and I > really want to install debian on itAND have X up and running. > > So far, the only distro that worked at all, and "worked out of the > box" too, was Red Hat 7.2. But I dont want red hat right now. > > When running xf86config, eventually you come to a list of supported video > cards. During Red Hat, there was ATI Radeon. Since then I even tried > Slackware, AND grabbed the latest kernel and XFREE files from xfree86.org > To my surprise, ATI Radeon was not listed. Where doe the list come from? >
it's not too hard. I think the card can be a ATI Mach 64??? or otherwise a SVGA card (if you use the V3 Version of XFree86)??? > -Kernel Choices? > -XFreesetup/version (I had the latest and it is supposed to be supported) > -some file I need to edit/modity before runniong xf86config? > > I know - its a newbieuish question, I have tried looking it up but Im > getting lost. > > > 2. I really want woody on my laptop. I got the netinstall CD and it seemed > to work ok. I also have window xp on /dev/hda1, LINUX and a swap partition > on the next 2. AFter I set up debian, It never booted into windows or > offered the choice. I edited lilo.conf then ran /sbin/lilo to add: > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos > > but it never came up. > there is a line commented called "prompt". Uncomment this line and you will see linux and windows. Otherwise you can press the tab-button several times at bootup, so you will see the lilo-prompt where you can type "dos" to run XP. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > in the mean time I said screw it, removed lilo, apt-get grub and boy did I > mess things up. Now all I get is the prompt GRUB> > > If I run fdisk froma dos boot, I can see > hda1 win > hda2 linux ext2 > hda3 linux swap > > what a mess! getting ready to wipe it all! > > > > /* Dutch > Running Linux */ Henning
