Hi all, i am trying to get a linux distribution on a computer i bought recently. the hardware config is CPU - AMD athlonXP 2000+ RAM - 256(shared with VGA) god know what type it is probably PC 133 40 gb hdd Trident blade 3D (8mb shared )
I have disabled the ac97 and added a old creative vibra 128 Logitech optical scroll mouse and a no name "made in china" keyboard 17" E70 viewsonic monitor. I have tried installing redhat 7.3 to 9.0 Mandrake 8.0 to 9.1 including rc2 but in all these installation half way through the system freezes. I though the problem would be with the VGA driver and tried installing these distributions in text mode. evern then i get "kernel panic" errors and the installation exits. mandrake 9.1 rc2 and 9.1 installed okay when i install minimum components in text mode. Even after that the system still gives problems when running KDE or Gnome. What happens is the system just quits what ever i am doing and exits to the login screen. For now i have installed Debian 3.0. I got the minimal installation CD down and did a network install. I have configured network and running webserver and sshd. But i am not able to configure the mouse and the xserver. i went through xf86config but could not configure it. The kernel ver in Debian 3.0 is 2.2.20. Can someone suggest direction to proceed? right now my purpose is being served(basically need the webserver and run some perl scripts) but i would very much like to get the xserver up and running. any help would be great. cheers, karthik
