I'm a bit confused by your message. If Linux can't write to the display, how
is it "telling" you that it can't recognize the video card?
I suspect that what you mean is that you can run Linux using text consoles,
but you can't get the XFree86 GUI to work. The rest of this message is based
on that assumption; please accept my apology if I've assumed wrong.
For running X, general advice is to mke sure you have the latest X11 release
and drivers. Since you haven't mentioned what Linux distribution/version you
installed, I don't know how up-to-date your X installation is.
For the X server package, go to URL http://www.xfree86.org/ . This URL lists
the latest release as 3.3.3.1, as of January 1999.
As to drivers, the X11 FAQ says the following:
"Q.F16- Is a server for the Intel i740 chipset available?
"Boards based on Intel i740 chips are not supported in XFree86, as
programming documentation is not available. For users of Linux based
machines, Red Hat has made a binary only server XBF_i740 available at their
ftp server. Check ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF for details."
and
"Q.F20- Is there any other way I can get an unsupported card to work?
"Well, there is. If you are running Linux and the card is VBE-2.0
compliant in hardware. Unfortunately even today many new cards are not. But
if yours is, then you can setup a late version of the Linux kernel (anything
newer than 2.1.119 should do) with vesafb and use the XF86_FBDev server with
it. Anthony D'Amico has a nice introduction how to do this at
http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/, where he describes how to get the
Banshee to work. Note that the section there about installing the XF68_FBDev
X server can be omitted. Instead use the XF86_FBDev that is provided as part
of XFree86 3.3.3.1. This works in a very similar way for other VBE-2.0
compliant cards as well."
Short of doing all of this, you can use Linux in text-console mode. While
this does limit what you can do, it still lets you see something of "what
Linux looks like" and is particularly useful if you will be working with
Linux as a server, rather than as a workstation.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
At 11:16 AM 3/28/99 -0800, Tochi Okoro wrote:
>Hi everyone,
> I have a problem with my video card. I have an 8MB intel740
>AGP card on an intel440BX chipset.
>I have two operating systems on my pc:linux and windows 98. My windows
>98 works properly but my linux does not work.It is properly installed
>but it keeps telling me that it does not recognize the video card
>therefore it cant display.I have never gotten past the
>log-on screen soi dont even know what linux looks like.
>I am new to linux and I need urgent help. Does anyone know where I can
>get the driver for this particular video card or what I can do to get my
>linux working?
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