if you have a free agp slot i have a vid card that you can use. it is a pretty generic 8mb non-gaming card. ?? what do you plan to do with this system?
Jeremy Bertrand email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Karthik Poobalasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:13:41 -0500 Subject: [brlug-general] distribution on my box > 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 ------- End of Original Message -------
