On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:17 PM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for having a look at this. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto > I didn't detail this fact in this thread, but for the cards that stall at a > blank, black screen during a normal boot, I can configure LTSP to just boot > to a shell (successfully) rather than to trying to load ldm, which results > in the stalled boot. From the sell I can use the commands mentioned in the > article: > lspci | grep VGA > sudo lshw -C video > I can get Lubuntu's identification of the current card and find out if it is > supposed to be supported (from the next link). > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCards > Although who knows if that supported-cards info will be current. I thought > I read somewhere about some distros that newer libraries were causing more > regressions for older video hardware.
Had you a look at the xserver-xorg-video packages? For examples, see below. > Worked: > - PCI Matrox Millennium II MGA 2164W (PCI card) > - Intel 82810E (integrated) > - An ATI-based AGP card sold as a MIC E-G012-02-1214(B) > - ATI Rage 128 Pro (AGP card) > - ATI Rage 128 (AGP card) > - HP VectaVL PC w/ integrated video, probably either: > Matrox G250 2X AGP > Matrox Millennium G400 4X AGP > > Partially Worked (got past the blank, black screen but then failed somehow): > - Diamond STL III S540 XTRM32M 82 (AGP card) > - Diamond Spdstr A50 with SiS 6326AGP chip (AGP card) > > Failed: > - Trident 3DImage 9850 (AGP card) Have you installed the xserver-xorg-video-trident package? > - S3 Trio64V+ (PCI card) Have you installed xserver-xorg-video-s3 for this? And so on. > - Diamond Viper with Power Weitek 9000/9001 and Oak Technology T9351 chips > (PCI card) > - ATI Mach64 (PCI card) > - eMachines eTower 500i w/ integrated video, probably: > ATI Rage Pro Turbo 2X AGP -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
