On Saturday 06 September 2003 05:56 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > I'm a little fuzzy on just what your video problems are. If you > inherited the GeF card on a screwed mobo, it could just be that the > card is compromised also. I believe I'd boot to lilo, an hit <Esc>, > then, 'linux init 3 mem=860M' (check you current lilo.conf, you > might need to add other parameters, eg, acpi=off) and as root run > 'XFdrake'. Choose conservative video card an monitor settings to > get started with. Probly 1024x768 @ 60Hz, 30-70 kHz HorizSync > 50-120 Hz VertRefresh. > > 'lspcidrake' and 'ddcxinfos' will tell you which video card you > have, and what your monitor specs are (HorizSync, VertRefresh) if > the hardware has this info imbedded in it's firmware. There's > another utility that reports onboard video ram, but for the life of > me I can't remember what it is.
If anyone knows what it is, please chime in. i have no specs on this card other than what the manufacturer's web site says. > Vram shouldn't be a problem for > configuring the Vcard an monitor tho. > > As to 'old' stanza's in lilo.conf, just delete them, an run > 'lilo'. I believe MCC has a GUI for doin it too. If your /boot > partition is gettin full, carefully delete old images (vmlinuz) an > initrd's. They're the only files that use a lot of disk space, the > links (system.map, config*, etc.) you can leave (or delete). Just > be careful. If you have a spare partition to back up to, it's > probly a good idea to backup /boot before you try any deleting. ok, i'll give this stuff a shot, except the deleting files stuff, i'll get to that later. i'm not too worried about hard drive space, as when i did the install i gave mdk almost 15Gb and split it right down the middle into / and /home, and i rarely use /home to save my stuff to, but i'll keep all the deleting stuff in mind for the future. all the 'old' linux things on the lilo screen are because i re-installed in order to get back into mdk. i knew i wouldn't lose all my settings if i just did a re-install. however, it's the 'old' ones that i screwed up royally. so just go ahead and delete them out and then update the 'new' stuff online for security and bug fixes and what not? since i'm in linux i can use the GUI to try to change the screen resolution and refresh and rates and all that instead of going into the command line. yes, i like the GUI for some things, command line for others. hey, i'm a new 'convert', command line is totally new to me, while i'm not afraid to use it, when dealing with multiple option settings (like all the stuff that can be done to the montier settings) i'd prefer the GUI. thanks, i'll see how this all goes. Mike
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