Hey bill I am(was) getting True colour on Mandrake 9.1. But the problem was the sound was really bad. so had to put in the my old card. The main problem with ac97 there is time and time again the sound server crashes. karthik
At 09:20 PM 4/14/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Our systems are very similiar, mine is based os the SiS chipsets >though. I had to set mine for the maximum color depth or number of >colors. It worked, sounds screwy but works for me. > >Bill > >On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:13, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >-- >Bill Joshlin >http://www.jesystems.net > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
