On 31/05/16 17:50, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:
> What is your video card?
>
> The longer story....
>
> I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is
> configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04).
> It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an
> error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04.
> I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different boot/install
> options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would boot from it but
> it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I tried from the menu
> would start to boot and then hang at apparently the same point in the boot
> process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from DVD, only CD. The 16.04
> Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a distribution upgrade to 14.04 and
> still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught on that the version of ffmpeg I was
> using was too modern for the cpu so I compiled one which worked. I can
> presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if I still want it, but not until the
> option is available from the update manager. Currently the PC is doing what I
> want it to do ... slowly. I am in no hurry to make further changes.
>
I'm assuming you are referring to my Shuttle PC. I think this extract from lshw
is what you want.
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
vendor: S3 Graphics Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=255 mingnt=4
resources: memory:ec000000-ec07ffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff
memory:ec080000-ec08ffff
If you're thinking it might have something to do with the failure to boot from
usb, there's another idea I stumbled across some time ago, possibly in
connection with this PC. Apparently some boot processes temporarily disable the
usb controller - not very helpful if you're using it to boot.
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